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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 »
Last night, MPs voted on amendments to the King’s Speech as dozens of Labour rebels backed an SNP motion calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. In total, eight Labour frontbenchers including Jess Phillips resigned from the Labour frontbench in order to do so. One of the rebels, former shadow home office minister Naz Shah, told… Read more »
