Name: Why the Queen's Speech was Boris Johnson's Conservative manifesto I FT
Uploaded: 2019-11-13T18:05:23.000Z
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been to secure the United Kingdom's departure

Today's Queen's Speech was less of a legislative agenda

for the next parliament and more of a Conservative party

That's because Boris Johnson, the prime minister,

knows he doesn't have a majority in the House of Commons

and therefore will find it very difficult to,

A, pass the Queen's Speech at all, and B,

pass any of these proposals through the House of Commons

We aim to create a new age of opportunity

...by October the 31st, we are setting out now our vision

of an open, global, free trading United Kingdom, a high-wage,

Labour, the opposition, accused Mr Johnson of playing politics

and bringing the Queen into parliament to effectively read

his plan for a general election and his Tory party manifesto.

There has never been such a farce as a government with

...and a 100 per cent record of defeat in the House of Commons

setting out a legislative agenda they know cannot be delivered

were the government's plans to toughen up the criminal justice

with foreign nationals who have been convicted of a crime

to return to the UK after having been deported,

also proposals for tougher and longer sentences

for those who have committed the most serious offences.

for a tougher immigration system, including

But aside from the domestic agenda put forward

by the prime minister today, clearly the number one issue

Brexit is clearly dominating the headlines in the news

but it's also bringing people out into the streets of London

to protest at what they either think is a betrayal of Brexit

or calls for Brexit to be halted altogether.