King?s Speech: Starmer Pushes the Bill Button

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🗓️ 17 July 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Today, we look at what was in Labour?s first King?s Speech.

Chris joins Adam after King Charles III set out the government's proposed laws at the State Opening of Parliament. They included plans for growth, the nationalisation of railways, and planning reform. We also look at what wasn?t included.

Adam also speaks to Labour?s Lucy Powell, now Leader of the House of Commons, whose job it is to make sure the plans become law.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:04.7	Hello, Chris.
0:05.4	Hi.
0:05.9	There isn't really a salutation for like happy King's Speech Day, is there?
0:10.2	I don't mean that's it really.
0:11.0	No, I don't suppose there is, really.
0:13.3	No.
0:13.8	But as it's tradition, you were sat in a very red room with some quite posh people on BBC 1 in the morning,
0:19.5	which is what you do in these days.
0:20.7	I mean, Rita Chakrabati, I always think of as Regal.
0:23.8	Yeah, true.
0:24.7	And, yeah, Robert Hardman, he's brilliant royal writer in the Daily Mail, and then various political guests.
0:31.1	And yeah, it's that thing, isn't it?
0:33.7	I mean, I know for us guys reporting on politics, perhaps for the most
0:37.5	devoted newscasters, there's a certain sort of predictability to the ritual. But I mean,
0:41.9	I think for me, the overall kind of thing I felt today was that you get the ritual, which
0:46.7	doesn't change, and then the politics that's just changed completely. House of Commons just
0:50.7	feels so different. To be discussed, the thing that really struck me was when Chris Bryant,
0:55.4	who is a culture minister in the new government, but also an expert on parliamentary procedure.
1:00.8	Sir Chris Bryant.
1:01.5	Sorry if you're listening, Sir Chris.
1:04.7	After everyone was talking about Atomic Kitten yesterday in Gareth Southgate, he referenced the Sugar Babes.
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