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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 Chris Bradley Whether Ricky Tomlinson will be Wavertree’s candidate for the Socialist Labour party [SLP] is still unclear. The former Brookside and Royle Family star met with SLP leader Arthur Scargill in Liverpool in February and it was expected that Mr Tomlinson would be announced as a candidate. That announcement has never come and… Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff The Labour blogger who launched the party’s manifesto yesterday once called for the prime minister to quit, it has emerged. Ellie Gellard wrote a piece in July 2008 calling for Gordon Brown to step down after the Glasgow East by-election defeat. The piece was uncovered by Tory bloggers after… Read more »
