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Johnson warns Queen’s Speech cannot shield people from cost-of-living squeeze

The Prime Minister acknowledged people were ‘anxious’ and struggling with bills but he could not ‘completely shield’ them from global economic forces.

The Independent UK

Alarm as Boris Johnson to strip away swathes of EU law after Brexit 'to boost economy'

Today's Queen's Speech marks the Prime Minister's last chance to implement significant reform before the next election, and he will use it to ditch hundreds of EU law from the statute book.

Daily Mirror

Queen’s Speech: Government again pledges to scrap no-fault evictions for renters – after years of delays

Promise was first made by Theresa May in 2019

The Independent UK

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Queen’s speech shows Boris Johnson is out of ideas, says Labour

Agenda includes bills to overhaul planning and human rights law but few new cost of living measures

The Guardian - UK

Queen's Speech announced as Boris Johnson pledges to solve cost of living crisis - with no new help

The Prime Minister, desperate to reset his premiership amid Partygate, will set out new "levelling up" plans and an infrastructure bank - but the Tories' legislative agenda will spark anger

Daily Mirror

Queen's Speech in full - how 38 Bills at State Opening of Parliament affect you

Prince Charles today unveiled the Queen’s Speech in place of his mother - but the text is all Boris Johnson’s, with a crackdown on protests and Brexit ‘opportunities’ - while employment rights, trophy hunting laws and the cost-of-living crisis are all snubbed

Daily Mirror

Queen’s Speech: Levelling Up Bill will attempt to put flesh on Boris Johnson’s troubled pledge

Key legislation will extend devolution deals, bring empty premises back into use and allow al fresco dining

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Queen’s Speech: No new help with cost of living in Boris Johnson’s plan to get Britain ‘back on track’ after Covid

Prime minister uses 38-bill Queen’s Speech in bid to reset premiership after Partygate scandal

The Independent UK

Keir Starmer’s pledge is the breath of fresh air our debased politics needs

Indifference and disdain are the great solvents of a functioning democracy. When voters conclude that all politicians are as bad as one another, they cease to believe in the capacity of electoral choice to deliver significant change.

Evening Standard

Car crashes into garden of £1.2m London townhouse owned by Boris Johnson

A car crashed into the front of the Prime Minister’s £1.2 million townhouse on Monday morning.

Evening Standard

Keir Starmer's resignation would not force Boris Johnson to quit, Tory minister says

KEIR Starmer’s resignation would not necessitate the exit of the Prime Minister from Downing Street, a Tory minister has insisted.

The National (Scotland)

Tesco chairman backs energy windfall tax to fight living costs crisis

John Allan also attacks Rishi Sunak’s national insurance rise as he says UK is facing real food poverty

The Guardian - UK

New measures to ‘dynamise’ the economy in Queen’s Speech, says Government

The Prince of Wales will read the Queen’s Speech for the first time as the monarch misses the State Opening of Parliament.

The Independent UK

Queen's Speech to criminalise protests as Boris Johnson brings back defeated law

The Public Order Bill will enable police to jail protesters for six months if they 'lock on' to public transport infrastructure or glue themselves to roads. These tactics have been used by groups including Insulate Britain.

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The Independent UK

Northern Ireland leaders speak with Prime Minister

Michelle O’Neill pressed Boris Johnson on the importance of an Executive being formed, while Sir Jeffrey Donaldson urged action on the protocol.

The Independent UK

Starmer resignation would not mean Johnson should follow suit – minister

Labour has sought to contrast Sir Keir Starmer’s actions with those of Boris Johnson, who has refused to quit after being fined by the Met Police.

The Guardian - UK

PM should not have to copy any Starmer resignation, says minister

Policing minister Kit Malthouse says Labour leader has to ‘set his own standards’

The Guardian - UK

Queen’s speech proposals show Johnson ‘bereft of ideas or purpose’, says Starmer – as it happened

The PM’s legislative agenda for the year ahead was set out earlier in the Queen’s speech, which was delivered by Prince Charles

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Liverpool Echo

Car crashes into front of Boris Johnson's London £1.3m townhouse

Neighbours have described the incident, which took place at around 1am on Monday (9 May), as sounding like 'thunder'

Reason

Brickbat: Up for Rent

The British government is set to unveil a law that would force landlords to rent out empty retail spaces. The law would let local councils mandate that owners place shops that have been empty a year or more into a "rental auction," with the high bidder getting the lease. Prime…

Daily Mirror

GMB fans 'switch off' and blast Richard Madeley's 'biased' interviewing and odd questions

Richard Madeley joined Susanna Reid on GMB today and grilled Labour MP Phillipson on Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer's vow to quit if he was fined over Beergate

The National (Scotland)

Liz Truss poised to do 'unthinkable' and tear up Northern Ireland Protocol

THE Tory government is poised to do the "unthinkable" and scrap major parts of the Northern Ireland Protocol after giving up…

Nottingham Post

Car crashes into Boris Johnson's £1.3m house in incident that 'sounded like thunder'

He bought it for Carrie

Evening Standard

Labour MP ‘confident’ Keir Starmer didn’t break Covid rules

Shadow education secretary backs Labour leader’s gamble to place his political future in the hands of Durham Police

The Independent UK

UK Parliament opens with pomp, problems for Boris Johnson

Britain’s Parliament is opening a new year-long session with Prime Minister Boris Johnson trying to re-energize his scandal-tarnished administration and address the U.K.’s worsening cost-of-living crisis

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