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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 »
A Labour and Liberal Democrat MP have called for proposals to be introduced to curtail foreign political donations, following speculation Elon Musk could donate as much as $100 million to Reform UK. Joe Powell, the Labour MP for Kensington and Bayswater, said this “issue is much bigger than Elon Musk” and noted research which estimates… Read more »
The speaker of the House of Commons has reprimanded the government over the manner in which it is announcing measures in the budget.
