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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Neil Lancefield

Draft Bill to create Great British Railways amid fears plan would be axed

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Rishi Sunak has revealed plans to make law and order a key election battleground with a series of measures promising tougher sentences for killers and rapists in the King’s Speech.

The prime minister also used the monarch’s annual address to parliament to create a dividing line with Labour on climate change, with a new law bringing in annual oil and gas licensing in the North Sea.

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