King’s Speech: Dividing lines for the general election?
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2023
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Of the bills set out in the speech, it could be the law and order measures and ones on the environment which the Conservatives might hope provide the clearest dividing lines between themselves and Labour ahead of the election.
On the Sky News Daily Niall Paterson speaks to political editor Beth Rigby for her assessment of the King's Speech and what it tells us about how the next election will be fought.
Producer: Emma Rae Woodhouse
Editor: Wendy Parker
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| 1:00.0 | With Britain, widely known as the Mother of Parliament, it is perhaps appropriate that when ours opens for business, we do things |
| 1:12.1 | somewhat differently to the rest of the world. Take the gilded, horse-drawn carriage, taking |
| 1:20.8 | the monarch from Buckingham Palace to the Palace of Westminster. Black Rod! Or that curious figure in stockings known as Black Rod, who has a door shut in their face |
| 1:32.8 | by the very MPs the monarch is summoning. |
| 1:36.9 | Or the King's speech itself, given from a massive golden throne to a room full of |
| 1:43.1 | lords and ladies dressed in finery that suggests |
| 1:45.9 | both a pending airman shortage |
| 1:48.0 | and that the cost of living crisis |
| 1:50.0 | maybe doesn't quite affect us all. |
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