Ministerial statement
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 »
The two Labour MPs denied entry into Israel while on a trip to visit the occupied West Bank have spoken in the House of Commons for the first time since their detention. Abtisam Mohamed, the MP for Sheffield Central, and Yuan Yang, the MP for Earley and Woodley, flew to Israel from London Luton Airport with two… Read more »
Rachel Reeves insisted the government is “stepping up” in response to profound geopolitical challenges as she delivered her first spring statement as chancellor. Reeves reflected that the world is “changing before our eyes”, and that the government’s job is now to “secure Britain’s future”. Speaking in the House of Commons on Wednesday afternoon, she confirmed… Read more »
