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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Peter Walker Political correspondent

MPs and peers retake parliamentary oaths to swear allegiance to King Charles III

Lindsay Hoyle, right, was the first MP to take the revised oath to King Charles III.
Lindsay Hoyle, right, was the first MP to take the revised oath to King Charles III. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

MPs and peers, among them Liz Truss, have formally retaken their parliamentary oaths to swear allegiance to the new King, followed by another round of tributes in both parliamentary houses to the late monarch.

The first MP to take the revised oath, which refers to the King rather than Queen, was the Speaker, Lindsay Hoyle, followed by the two longest-serving MPs, Peter Bottomley and Harriet Harman, then Truss and a dozen or so other senior MPs, mainly ministers, shadow ministers and party leaders.

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