Vowing to ease the cost of living crisis without offering new help to families was typical of a PM who doesn’t walk the talk.
The gaping hole in the Queen’s Speech setting out the Conservative Government’s programme for the next 12 months was a sorry excuse for a proper plan.
Boris Johnson, who put up taxes to 1940s’ levels and is presiding over the worst squeeze in living standards since the 1950s, is a Tory leading Britain into hardship.
And where was the Bill pledging to improve the rights of workers? Nowhere to be seen.
Thrashing around, recklessly privatising Channel 4, a hobby horse Bill of Rights plus a crackdown on all protests under the cover of tackling Extinction Rebellion and Insulate Britain is a rag-tag list.
Brexit will not provide opportunities if leaving the European Union’s an excuse to dilute equal pay and axe health and safety laws.
Johnson and his Government have little worthwhile to offer.
Heir of change
Prince Charles standing in for the Queen at the State Opening of Parliament could be the start of an unofficial regency, the heir performing the duties of the monarch.
With the 96-year-old’s health failing, we could be witnessing the transfer of powers in a Platinum Jubilee year celebrating her extraordinary 70 years on the throne.
With grandson William giving close support, change is happening before our eyes.
Charles did everything that was asked of him today and we are likely to see more of him and less of the monarch in future.
Trial laid bare
The Wagatha Christie trial is living up to its billing as Rebekah Vardy was quizzed about revealing details of a claimed fling with singer Peter Andre earlier in her life.
The High Court libel battle with fellow WAG Coleen Rooney is proving the old warning that washing dirty linen in public strips bare those involved.
