King’s Speech charts out new UK government’s priorities
Al Jazeera
Britain’s King Charles has set out Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s legislative agenda, promising a government of service focused on reviving the economy and tackling issues from an acute housing shortage to a cost-of-living crisis.
In a ceremony full of pageantry, before an audience of robed lords and lawmakers, Charles read out the laws the government is prioritising after Starmer’s centre-left Labour Party won a large majority at this month’s election.
“My government will seek a new partnership with both business and working people and help the country move on from the recent cost-of-living challenges by prioritising wealth creation for all communities,” the king said in a speech to hundreds of lawmakers and scarlet-robed members of the House of Lords.
The official “King’s Speech”, written by the government, also tried to set a new tone for British politics, promoting service rather than self-interest, something that Labour says took root over 14 years of often-chaotic Conservative Party rule.
Starmer won one of the largest parliamentary majorities in modern British history on July 4.
