Queen’s Speech Articles

A threadbare, unimaginative Queen's speech leaves Theresa May's government on the cusp of a very early demise, writes Stephen Beer The Queen’s speech was a vivid representation of the state into which the Conservative party has got both itself and the country. To have...

Alex White presents his alternative Queen's speech – what Labour could and should be doing now were it in power. Six years into a Conservative government, the economy is not where they told us it would be. Productivity shows no sign of recovery, there are poor...

Sam Stopp presents his alternative Queen's speech – what Labour could and should be doing now were it in power. A bill to end homelessness Under the last Labour government, homelessness fell substantially. In 2015, government statistics showed that 3,569 people slept...

David Cameron went all out at his first cabinet meeting this month to portray the Conservative party as the ‘real party of working people’. Yet the first act of this government, shown in the queen’s speech, is to restrict the rights of working people and bring in the...