Constitutional Reform
The Medical Defence Union (MDU) says it is extremely worrying that the amount of money earmarked to cover the cost of clinical negligence claims against the NHS in the UK has risen to £86 billion. The astonishing figure, just published in the Whole of Government Accounts for the year to March 2020 has increased more than fourfold… Read more »
The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has received ministerial confirmation which quashes claims that country sports will be banned in Wales by 2024. The false information was spread through a series of social media posts in March this year, which made claims that shooting and other country sports would have no future in… Read more »
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By politics.co.uk staff The Queen’s Speech should be scrapped this year and replaced with thorough implementation of reforms to parliament, Nick Clegg said this morning. In a comment piece for the Independent, the Lib Dem leader described this year’s Queen’s Speech as a “fiction”, because there wasn’t enough parliamentary time left until the election for… Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff New Commons Speaker’s wife Sally Bercow is to stand for Labour in forthcoming local elections. John Bercow won the race to succeed Michael Martin as Speaker in the summer despite being deeply unpopular on Tory party benches. His political journey from the right to left of his party was in large part… Read more »
