Tim Farron
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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The UK today is a pluralist society where people of different backgrounds and beliefs generally co-exist well together. But the crisis in the Middle East is aggravating tensions, and there has been a rise in both antisemitism and Islamophobia. Ordinary Muslim people are being suspected of harbouring Islamic extremist views; whilst the actions of the… Read more »
I’m sure you share my horror at the dreadful corrosive substance attack last week on a woman and her two young children. Our prayers remain with the three of them. Abdul Ezedi, an Afghan national, has been named as a suspect by the police. It’s since been revealed he was granted UK asylum on his… Read more »
