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Queen's speech: all the bills and what they mean

The government unveiled a legislative programme ranging from Lords reform to libel and family justiceLords reformA bill to reform the House of Lords has been included in the Queen's speech as one of...

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Queen opens parliament with a festival of bling – and a couple of fluffs

The Queen's speech was the usual clanging, clanking collection of boilerplate ambitions cloaked in the language of clicheThe last session of parliament was the longest for 100 years. At the previous...

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Government confirms plans for electricity market overhaul

Wide package of reforms to electricity market and water industry promised in Queen's speechThe government has confirmed plans for "revenue support" to benefit nuclear power, through a complex new...

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The Queen's speech: in place of strategy | Editorial

It is a measure of the coalition's current dysfunctionality that it proved unable to seize the opportunity to get on the front footAmid the pomp and the irrepressible catcalls from Dennis Skinner,...

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Queen's speech: a story of coalition uncertainty | Martin Kettle

David Cameron is now struggling to send a clear message to the nation about what the coalition is forWhatever its content and however deadpan Her Majesty's inimitable delivery of it, every Queen's...

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Steve Bell on the Queen's speech - cartoon

Lords reform takes centre stage in legislative agenda, alongside measures to support families, change employment law and reform pensionsSteve Bell

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Daily Mail misses a Tic Tac trick | Media Monkey

The BBC's former head of corporate communications, Tina Stowell, looked very impressive in her ermine yesterday during the Queen's speech. But not so impressive is the Daily Mail for not spotting the...

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To be a Tory, or not a Tory - that is the question | Michael White

Conservative MP for Stratford-upon-Avon Nadhim Zahawi posited during the Queen's Speech debate that William Shakespeare was a natural Tory. Maybe, maybe not …The Tory MP Nadhim Zahawi made a witty...

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We must not miss the chance to reform social care

The NHS will buckle under the pressure of increasing demand if the current, broken system is allowed to carry onThere is some hope in the Queen's speech for our ageing population and the care services...

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We cannot afford to delay social care funding reforms

The government's draft bill does not look like it will tackle the growing crisis, or the cynicism and dispair that many feelThe Queen's speech has confirmed what many of us feared: there is to be a...

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Social workers should play a role in remodelling care

Policy makers should look to frontline professionals when drawing up social care reformsNo one can be unaware that the funding of adult social care is one of the major challenges this country faces....

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After the Queen's speech: who will speak for liberty now? | Editorial

A blanket licence for electronic monitoring could slowly strangle private lifeA dismal 32% turnout in the local elections flowed from a sense that all politicians are the same. That belief is often...

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Behind the Queen's speech

Chris Riddell on the looming presence of recessionChris Riddell

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An alternative Queen's speech: supporting social enterprise and co-ops

Labour's shadow civil society minister offers an alternative Queen's speech with bills to back social enterprise and co-opsIt seems no-one has had a good word to say for this year's Queen's speech, yet...

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Give special educational needs changes more time, say campaigners

Pilot schemes are not being allowed enough time to test SEN proposals, say charities, teachers' unions and pressure groupsThe government's radical shakeup of England's system for children with special...

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Queen's speech: social care reforms are doomed from the start

The real solution for the failings of the current system would be to reunite the founding principles of the welfare stateIt seems highly unlikely that the government's proposed social care reforms,...

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EU referendum: Tory MPs to force vote next week

Commons expected to vote on Tuesday on amendment expressing regret over lack of referendum bill in Queen's speechConservative MPs are seeking to engineer a vote on an EU referendum by tabling an...

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Politics Weekly podcast: immigration, probation and the election in Pakistan

Reforms of the immigration system and prison probation rose to the top of the government's agenda as the coalition laid out its legislative programme in the Queen's speech at the state opening of...

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Letters: Immigration, bigotry and the bad old days

The last Labour government had in train plans to introduce national registration, which this government aborted (New curbs on EU migrants in Queen's speech, 8 May). There are many practical advantages...

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Nationalism gone mad is threatening democracy in Britain | Darcus Howe

We need immigrants and we should not be asking people to stamp on the head of those who serve our economy so wellFifty-one years ago I arrived in Britain after a long journey on the SS Antilles. My...

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