!["May and her colleagues cannot accept that Britain is about to fail"](https://pukstaging.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14122203_1200-1024x695.jpg)
Brexit
!["May and her colleagues cannot accept that Britain is about to fail"](https://pukstaging.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14122203_1200-1024x695.jpg)
!["If there is specificity about what is happening in the future, the whole endeavour will explode"](https://pukstaging.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14124145_1200-1024x591.jpg)
!["It is entirely unclear what kind of diplomatic operation the UK has trying to influence these crucial talks as they take place over the next two months"](https://pukstaging.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14125437_1200-1024x681.jpg)
![Brexit secretary David Davis and EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier hold a press conference in summer 2017. The next stage of negotiations will focus on transition.](https://pukstaging.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14125424_1200-1024x681.jpg)
!["This year will define Britain for many years to come"](https://pukstaging.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14125089_1200-1024x699.jpg)
!["We are in a rare moment when the scope of the negotiations can be influenced"](https://pukstaging.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14125358_1200-1-1024x683.jpg)
![Theresa May prepares her Tory conference speech in Birmingham in 2016. The party faces a significant demographic problem in its elderly membership](https://pukstaging.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14120397_1200-1024x683.jpg)
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A new survey from the Medical Defence Union (MDU) of over 400 doctors has demonstrated doctors’ willingness to be open and honest with patients when something goes wrong in their care. The survey of 411 MDU members* found: 99% of doctors followed up incidents by apologising, explaining what happened and trying to put things right,… Read more »
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A year on from BASC Scotland’s call for the establishment of a Gamekeeping Taskforce, the Minister for Environment and Land Reform, Màiri McAllan MSP, has been urged to address the ongoing difficulties facing gamekeepers and rural workers in managing the countryside. Ahead of the 2021 Scottish Parliamentary election BASC Scotland called for the creation of a Scottish Gamekeeping… Read more »
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![Scotland stands to become the latest in a series of counties to repeal blasphemy laws](https://pukstaging.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14123216_1200-75-1024x297.png)
!["We will continue to work with bereaved families to help them have a meaningful ceremony"](https://pukstaging.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14123216_1200-76-1024x297.png)
![Theresa May](https://pukstaging.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14125101_1200-1024x683.jpg)
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!["The danger the hardliners are presenting to themselves is that by their own, increasingly fluid and ever-moving parameters, they will never be happy"](https://pukstaging.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14125086_1200-1024x674.png)
!["The sad logic of game theory suggests that a far more likely outcome is the re-emergence of some kind of border between Northern Ireland and the Republic"](https://pukstaging.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14123287_1200-1-1024x575.jpg)
!["MPs must stand up for democracy and vote for parliament to have the strongest possible final say on the deal"](https://pukstaging.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14124145_1200-1-1024x591.jpg)
!["From a British perspective, the early 2020s represent a perfect time to hold a border poll"](https://pukstaging.politics.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cnphoto_0_0_0_0_14123898_1200-1-1024x605.png)