What's in King's Speech? Starmer to bring in 35 new bills including EU reset plan
Sir Keir Starmer will use the King's Speech to advance plans to unpick Brexit with 35 new bills including an EU partnership law and rejoining Erasmus.
Sir Keir Starmer will advance attempts to unpick Brexit with new measures to be outlined in the King's Speech.
Labour will unveil 35 new bills as Sir Keir's floundering government tries to refocus on getting on with "changing our country for the better", the Prime Minister said.
Included in the measures will be plans to bring down the cost of living, slash waiting times in hospitals and seek further realignment with Europe.
"Britain stands at a pivotal moment," Sir Keir said in advance of the speech - which opens a new Parliamentary session.
Warning against "the chaos and instability of the past" the remain-voting Prime Minister is believed to be plotting a new set of laws which critics say would see the UK becoming a rule-taker from Brussels, instead of a rule-maker.
King's Speech to outline Brexit reversal plans
The government is intending to rejoin the Erasmus scheme, which allows British students to study in the EU, in exchange for Europeans to study here.
Labour also intends to announce new plans to improve the UK's trading and investment relationship with the bloc that the UK voted to leave.
Despite the move, the government hopes such a scheme will reduce regulation and improve growth and innovation in the UK.
The King's Speech is expected to continue despite growing uncertainty around the Prime Minister's future.
Cabinet office minister Nick Thomas-Symonds said Tuesday had been "turbulent" for the Prime Minister but showed there was no consensus in Labour about having a leadership contest.
He told BBC Breakfast: “There is no contest for the leadership of the Labour Party.
“There’s a very clear way to do that under our rules of 81 people nominating an alternative candidate. That hasn’t happened.
“The contest hasn’t been triggered. We are moving on. I’m not saying yesterday wasn’t turbulent. It evidently was, but we are moving, getting on with delivery.”
He said he would be leading on two of the 35 Bills to be unveiled in the King’s Speech on Wednesday – removing titles from disgraced peers in the House of Lords and a European partnership Bill to deliver on new trade arrangements with the EU.
