Battle of the day
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 »
Ed Miliband has invoked the slogan of the “Leave” campaign in the 2016 Brexit referendum and insisted Labour is “taking back control” with clean energy. The energy secretary was challenged on Tuesday morning by Reform UK deputy leader Richard Tice, one of the founders of the pro-Brexit Leave Means Leave campaign, on energy bills. Tice… Read more »
Robert Jenrick had his comments slammed as “absolutely outrageous” after he questioned who in government is acting as an “obstacle” to easing the court backlog. The shadow justice secretary told MPs the court backlog is growing by 500 cases every month, with no date set for when it will come down. He said: “Victims are… Read more »
