The Government will take responsible decisions on spending and borrowing in order to help bring down the level of inflation, King Charles said on Tuesday
Setting out government’s priorities for a new parliamentary session in the King’s Speech, Charles said ministers “will address inflation and the drivers of low growth over demands for greater spending or borrowing.”
The KIng said that The impact of Covid and the war in Ukraine have created significant long-term challenges for the United Kingdom.
“That is why my government’s priority is to make the difficult but necessary long-term decisions to change this country for the better.”
In what will certainly be the last King’s speech before the election expected next autumn and the first delivered by a King in 71 years, there were 21 new pieces of legislation including proposals to introduce tougher sentencing laws, a ban on the sale of cigarettes and measures to increase oil production in the North Sea.
There will also be bills to pave the way for driverless cars on British roads, reform the leasehold property system and introduce a new system of governance for football.
The Government also pledged to bring in Martyn’s law in this session of Parliament,named after Manchester Arena terror attack victim Martyn Hett.
Legislation to be drafted would mean public venues must ensure stronger protection against terrorism attacks
It follows a five year campaign by Martyn’s mother Figen Murray, who has tirelessly campaigned to ensure public venues and local authorities have preventative action plans against terror attacks.
