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Responding to today’s announcement that the GMC is seeking views on a revised version of Good medical practice, the Medical Defence Union (MDU) said that it will be scrutinising the significant changes being proposed. The MDU, the UK’s leading medical defence organisation, explained that regulations must be compatible with the realities of doctors’ working lives and… Read more »
BASC, the UK’s largest shooting and conservation organisation, has expelled for life a member convicted of wildlife crime and firearms offences. Expulsion from BASC involves the loss of shooting insurance, on which the ability to shoot may depend, and other benefits of membership. The member from Nottinghamshire pleaded guilty to unlawfully trapping and beating to… Read more »
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By politics.co.uk staff The salaries of senior figures in the public sector will be linked to those of their lowest paid workers, the Conservatives will announce today. The proposal, which form a key part of the opposition’s plans to rein in public spending as it tries to increase confidence in its calculations, will appeal to… Read more »
By Ian Dunt The nature of PMQs crippled David Cameron’s attempts to get rid of the ‘Punch and Judy’ of British politics, he has admitted. The Tory leader told the Today programme that the way PMQs was structured prompted an conflict-led approach to politics. “I would say we’ve tried to politics in a different way,”… Read more »
