Party Politics
Tax rise payments from over 8 million people needed to fund NHS litigation An influential parliamentary committee has been warned by the Medical Defence Union (MDU) that the Health and Social Care Levy of 1.25% could be swallowed up by the amounts being paid out each year in NHS clinical negligence claims. In evidence to… Read more »
Plans to allow doctors to help terminally ill adults end their lives moved closer to becoming law today, after a new Assisted Dying Bill passed its second reading in the House of Lords. Humanists UK, which campaigns to legalise assisted dying for both the terminally ill and incurably suffering, has praised today’s debate for its… Read more »
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We’re all in this together, Dave tells us. That seems unlikely. By Ian Dunt The message was clear: The Conservatives are a team. With David Cameron treating the general election campaign as a one man show, Tory strategists evidently felt it was time to bring out the wannabe ministers. Today’s manifesto event was the polar… Read more »
The Conservative manifesto’s cover sums up the party’s central message for their 2010 general election campaign: giving power to the people. Its title – An Invitation To Join The Government Of Britain – seeks to reach out to people to give them back control over more of their lives, reducing government in a bid to… Read more »
