House Building
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 »
Latest articles
By politics.co.uk staff Conservative MP Nadine Dorries became the latest government backbencher to question David Cameron’s social housing plans yesterday. The prime minister had outlined plans to remove the lifetime security of tenure currently enjoyed by those living in council housing, in a bid to make Britain’s social housing more efficient. Mid-Befordshire’s Ms Dorries suggested… Read more »
By Alex Stevenson David Cameron’s aim of ending the ‘council houses for life’ principle has met with a frosty reception from the Liberal Democrats. The party’s deputy leader said the Lib Dems “would need a lot of persuading” on the issue, as the coalition unveiled proposals to introduce a national affordable home swap scheme today…. Read more »
