Britain’s Conservative government set out a pre-election policy slate including tougher sentences for criminals and promises of elusive economic growth at...
LONDON — Britain’s Conservative government set out a pre-election policy slate including tougher sentences for criminals and promises of elusive economic growth at the grand State Opening of Parliament on Tuesday.
Charles became monarch when his mother died in September 2022, after a 70-year reign. He paid tribute to “my beloved mother” at the start of the first King’s — rather than Queen’s — Speech since 1951. The speech, which lasted just over 10 minutes, set out the government’s modest slate of 21 bills, ranging from changes to the way soccer teams are run to a clampdown on unlicensed pedicabs.
Environmentalists and opposition parties say it will just make it harder for the U.K. to make a much-needed switch to renewable energy and to meet its goal of reducing U.K. greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050. Detailed economic plans were scant, though the speech included legislation aimed at growing, and regulating, sectors including AI and self-driving cars, and a law to open Britain’s market to a grouping of Pacific Rim nations as part of a trade agreement, known as the CPTPP, that the U.K. joined this year.
The King’s Speech was the centerpiece of a parliamentary opening ceremony that reflects the two sides of Britain’s constitutional monarchy: royal pomp and political power.
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