LONDON (Reuters) – King Charles will outline the government’s plans on crime, climate, housing and other laws on Tuesday in what could be British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s first and most recent so-called King’s Speech. , before next year’s elections.
Sunak will take advantage of the event, in which the monarch gives a speech listing the Government’s priorities for a new parliamentary session, to insist on what his team hopes will be the vote-winning policies he outlined at the beginning of the year.
Seeking to create a dividing line between the country’s ruling Conservatives and the opposition Labor Party, which is far ahead in the polls, Sunak is expected to insist on easing climate measures to meet Britain’s net emissions target. zero in 2050.
He will also push his agenda to crack down on crime, introducing plans to extend the use of what has until now been the little-used life sentence to the most serious British criminals and to force criminals to face their victims in court.
“I want everyone across the country to have the pride and comfort of knowing that their community… is safe. That is my vision of what a better Britain looks like,” Sunak said in a statement before the speech.
In what will be a highly political pre-election programme, Sunak will introduce a set of laws such as the Sentencing Bill, which means convicted murderers, who carry out sexually motivated attacks, will automatically remain in jail for the rest of their sentences. lives without the option of release.
It will be Charles’ first time giving the speech as king after taking over from his mother, Queen Elizabeth, last year, in a ceremony that traditionally begins with a procession from Buckingham Palace to Westminster.
In a ceremony full of pomp, some of whose traditions date back to the 16th century, the monarch reads a list of plans drawn up by the Government. His departure after the speech signals the beginning of a new parliamentary session.
The speech, just a month after the two main parties held their annual conferences, will add to the growing sense of an election campaign that has not yet formally begun and which the Conservatives hope will reduce the 20-point gap separating them from the labourers.
(Reporting by Elizabeth Piper and Andrew MacAskill; Editing in Spanish by Aida Pelaez-Fernandez)
2023-11-07 05:14:53
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