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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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New figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show the UK economy contracted by 0.3 per cent in April. This came alongside the hikes to National Insurance contributions at the same time as the energy price cap rose, along with council tax in many local authorities. The GDP decrease was above what experts had… Read more »
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has urged wealthy households to donate their energy bill handout to charity. Every single UK household will receive at least one £400 grant. People claiming benefits can receive another £650. £300 extra will be given to pensioners, with another £150 set aside for each person on non means tested disability benefits. Quizzed… Read more »
