The Queen’s Speech will be heavy on the ‘levelling up’ rhetoric, but campaigners will be hoping for commitments on legislation that failed to materialise in the last parliament, writes Ashley Cowburn
While no stranger to the pomp and ceremony of the event — it will be the 67th occasion on which the Queen has opened Parliament since November 1952 — the monarch will find a scaled back affair compared to previous years due to the Covid restrictions, with guests banned and social distancing measures in force.
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