Good morning. Dust off your ermine, folks: it’s king’s speech day. At about 11.30am, shortly after leading the royal procession into the House of Lords and hopping on to his throne, King Charles will set out the new government’s agenda. With Labour’s manifesto plan for mandatory housing targets at the heart of it, it’s probably going to be short on surprises. But it will start to flesh out the detail of how Keir Starmer intends to govern – and whether his party’s swollen backbench numbers might bring headaches as well as parliamentary security.
For today’s newsletter, I spoke to Guardian political correspondent Kiran Stacey about what to expect, and what it will tell us about Keir Starmer’s priorities for the next year. Here are the headlines.
