Prime minister's questions
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 »
Keir Starmer has reiterated his view that the United States under the leadership of president Donald Trump is a “reliable ally”. The prime minister said that the United Kingdom works with the US “on defence, on security and on intelligence”, adding: “We have done for many, many years.” The comment came as Starmer was questioned… Read more »
A Conservative MP and former minister has urged Keir Starmer to call out Donald Trump’s “childish nonsense” when the two meet in Washington DC on Thursday. Simon Hoare said that when the PM meets the US president, whom he referred to as the “former leader of the free world”, he does so “with the hopes… Read more »
