She said: “Retailers will be encouraged that the Government is seeking to reach out to business”.
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May has resisted calls to resign and is hoping for the support of the DUP’s 10 MPs to boost her tally of 317 seats in the 650-seat parliament, but a deal has proved elusive so far.
The speech set out government proposals to deliver eight bills necessary for Brexit, including legislation allowing Britain to determine its own immigration, customs and trade arrangements.
While the queen reads the Queen’s Speech to lawmakers, it is written by the prime minister and her staff and offers a broad brush of goals for the future.
The speech comes after May lost her majority in a snap election earlier this month, leaving her at the head of a minority government with no deal in place to insure that the government can deliver on its agenda.
This includes a Repeal Bill to overturn the 1972 Act which took Britain into the European Economic Community and separate Bills on customs, trade, immigration, fisheries, agriculture, nuclear safeguards and the global sanctions regime. Negotiations over the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union began on Monday.
With the removal of the policy on grammar schools from the Queen’s speech, reports suggest that the Prime Minister’s Government will launch a “modest” pilot of the scheme instead.
According to the Telegraph, Government sources say the two-year session would give time for laws needed for Brexit to be fully debated.
There are a lot of reasons that might spring to mind: the heat wave, the Queen’s advancing years, the sombre mood in the country given the string of recent tragedies. Four militant attacks have raised questions about her grip on national security, and the death of at least 79 people in a tower block fire has become a flashpoint for public anger at her party’s record in government.
Workers were promised an increase in the national living wage and expanded “rights and protections in the modern workplace”.
Counter-terror strategy will be reviewed and an independent public advocate to act on behalf of bereaved families created.
“I am pleased to see the government’s commitment to fairer schools funding, which is essential for York”.
The Bill creates powers for Parliament to use secondary legislation to make what are expected to be a huge number of technical amendments to European Union rules and regulations to ensure they continue to operate appropriately within United Kingdom law.
‘This will be complemented by legislation to ensure that the United Kingdom makes a success of Brexit, establishing new national policies on immigration, global sanctions, nuclear safeguards, agriculture, and fisheries, ‘ the Queen said.
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“This amounts to a power grab – a sweeping constitutional rewrite carried out by a government with the slimmest possible majority, without any political consensus, and with important checks and balances missing from key pieces of legislation”. It’s clear that preparations for our exit from the European Union will dominate this parliament, but it’s absolutely vital that dementia should not slip from the agenda as a result.
