Rachel Reeves
Ahead of Wednesday’s Budget, the Medical Defence Union (MDU) has issued an open letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer urging her to take decisive action to tackle the soaring legal costs of clinical negligence claims. In the last year alone, the NHS spent more than £800 million on legal fees relating to clinical negligence… Read more »
The Supreme Court has ruled in favour of a non-religious father and his child that the exclusively Christian teaching of Religious Education (RE) and collective worship in Northern Ireland are ‘indoctrination’. Alongside mandatory Christian collective worship and a ‘stigmatising’ right of withdrawal, this is therefore discriminatory under human rights law. This ruling will have wide-ranging… Read more »
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On 11 June Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, is due to stand at the despatch box and announce what is arguably the most significant set of decisions the government is set to make this parliament – the spending review. Whilst it might sound technical, it will undoubtedly be of huge importance. The spending… Read more »
The decisions taken under the incumbent Labour government are seen as the biggest factor behind Britain’s economic woes, polling has found. The new research, conducted by Ipsos, points to widespread pessimism in the country about Britain’s economic prospects and the cost-of-living. Almost half of Britons (47 per cent) believe the UK is currently in recession… Read more »
