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King's speech

July 2024

  • King Charles at the state opening of parliament

    Housebuilding, railways, Lords reform: what to expect in the king’s speech

    More than 30 bills expected as Labour government sets out its legislative agenda for this session of parliament
  • Keir Starmer and Labour MPs in Westminster.

    UK ministers preparing king’s speech containing at least 30 bills

    Exclusive: Programme to include devolution, housebuilding, crime, transport, AI and green energy

    • ‘We’ll move fast and fix things’: the big transport issues for Labour

    • Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner to kickstart new era of devolution

    • New law on child exploitation by drug dealers in Labour crime crackdown

11 November 2023

  • Tiffany and Edward sit in the back of a pedicab in London

    ‘It’s like a jungle’: London’s pedicab cyclists welcome licences but not price controls

    Regulations for carriages, which have been accused of ripping off tourists, announced in king’s speech

9 November 2023

  • Suella Braverman

    Politics Weekly UK
    The king’s speech, Suella Braverman and ‘hate marches’ – Politics Weekly UK

    Will Suella Braverman step in to ban the pro-Palestine march in London this Saturday? The Guardian’s Kiran Stacey speaks to former Conservative adviser Salma Shah and Guardian political correspondent Aletha Adu

8 November 2023

  • cartoon 9.11.23

    Guardian Opinion cartoon
    Rishi Sunak’s time is up by Ella Baron – cartoon

  • Martin Kettle

    Maybe Sunak does have a grand plan. But that king’s speech looked more like an admission of failure

    Martin Kettle

7 November 2023

  • a young woman vaping

    Tax on vapes could be part of plans to create a smoke-free generation in UK

  • Britain's King Charles delivers a speech beside Britain's Queen Camilla during the State Opening of Parliament in the House of Lords Chamber, in London.

    The Guardian view on the king’s speech: full of old ideas when new ones are needed

  • Rishi Sunak walks through the peers’ lobby alongside Keir Starmer before the state opening of parliament.

    From goat exports to driverless vehicles: the 21 bills in the king’s speech

  • King Charles reads the king's speech as Queen Camilla sits next to him in parliament

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Keir Starmer dismisses king’s speech as ‘exercise in economic miserabilism’ – as it happened

  • In his speech, King Charles spoke of ‘my government’. Well, it certainly isn’t ours

    Rafael Behr

  • Guardian Opinion cartoon
    Martin Rowson on the king’s speech – cartoon

  • North Sea oil and gas: what is the new licensing scheme, and will it cut bills?

  • King Charles sets out Sunak’s election dividing lines in first king’s speech

  • UK facing ‘significant long-term challenges’, says Charles in king's speech – video

  • King’s speech holds little to pull in votes for a PM running out of time

  • Anti-green measures in king’s speech are desperate political play by Sunak

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