

Ofsted has called on the Government to take action on illegal schools. The call came in Ofsted’s latest annual report, published yesterday. The report also highlighted that religious education (RE) provision in English state schools is ‘not fit for purpose’, and that independent faith schools perform very badly in Ofsted inspections. Humanists UK, which has led the… Read more »
Speaking at an event today, the Medical Defence Union (MDU) said the expected arrival of a dual system of regulation at the GMC next year could introduce confusion to an already outdated system of healthcare professional regulation. While speaking at the Westminster Health Forum event today on Next steps for professional healthcare regulation in the UK,… Read more »
The Conservative Party lost the Tamworth and Mid Bedfordshire by-elections with swings to Labour of 20.5 percentage points and 23.9 points respectively in a historically bad night for the government. In the aftermath, the losses of Tamworth and Mid Bedfordshire are now being compared to British politics’ last slate of by-elections, namely in Uxbridge and… Read more »
Right of Conservative parties Reform UK, UKIP and Britain First amassed a combined 9.4 per cent of the vote at the Tamworth by-election, with each party individually besting the Liberal Democrats and Greens. Reform UK, the restyled Brexit party which is led by Richard Tice, won 5.4 per cent of the vote. Britain First, a… Read more »