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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the spectator's daily politics podcast. I'm Katie Balls,

and I'm joined by Isabel Hardman and James Versafe, and we had just had the Queen's speech.

Isabel, Boris Johnson, since entering Downing Street, has had Brexit on his agenda and then next

a pandemic. But we're now getting to the point where there is at least the hope amongst

ministers that we could start to see some reform and a focus on policy. And what was set out today

in terms of the priorities going forward? Yeah, so this Queen's speech that was unveiled today

sets out a legislative programme for the national recovery and building back better following the pandemic.

And to that end, it includes proposals on adult education and skills

so that adults can get student loans throughout their lifetime so that they can retrain

or be re-educated to take on a different job given the changes

that COVID has brought about in the workplace. It also has reforms for the NHS, which we have

known about for a while some of the changes such as putting integrated care systems on a statutory footing.

It has changes to immigration law, to make it harder for asylum seekers to get here by crossing the English Channel.

It also contains proposals on policing, which will be quite contentious given some of the plans on protest. And it's also,

I think, as notable for what it doesn't include, and I think a lot of the debate over the next

few months is going to be about what Boris Johnson and his colleagues have avoided promising,

which is a bill reforming adult social care. Now, I realise that I bang on

about this a lot, but it is quite a striking omission that the Queen's speech only says that this

government will bring forward proposals on adult social care reform. And it promises that these

proposals will come forward this year and that there will be work

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