What did the Queen's Speech reveal?
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2022
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
'You can tell the Tory party is trying to shore itself up from being outflanked on crime and immigration come the next election' - James Forsyth.
What was the reaction to the speech in the debate that followed?
All to be discussed as James Forsyth speaks to Katy Balls.
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| 0:16.7 | Hello and welcome to the spectators coffee house shots podcast on this the day of the |
| 0:22.4 | I'm Jason and I'm joined by Kati Balls. Now Kati this was an unusual Queen speech because it wasn't |
| 0:29.9 | delivered by the Queen but by Prince Charles the Queen's mobility issues prevented her from coming |
| 0:35.0 | to Parliament to deliver the speech but what message was the government trying to get across |
| 0:40.4 | in this Queen speech? So it's quite an interesting one the sense that what was pre-briefed and what |
| 0:45.6 | began the Queen speech was this idea that the government's central priority is the cost of living |
| 0:50.4 | crisis and growing their economy but yet when you look at the various bills in the Queen's |
| 0:56.4 | speech and this is partly just the fact that it is a Queen speech or a limit to what you can |
| 1:00.1 | legislate for. It didn't really fold into that in the way that you would expect that she |
| 1:05.1 | would front and send to message so the government wanted to talk about cost of living but if you start |
| 1:09.3 | to look through the bills of which I think they're 38 it's pretty wide-ranging and it goes from things |
| 1:15.9 | such as protests and having tough of rules around protests and certain organisations to |
| 1:23.4 | leveling up and potentially giving more powers to the communities on this, |
| 1:28.2 | somebody to go to see what this means for planning when it comes to that bill and then on |
| 1:32.9 | conversion therapy we had it confirmed that they will press out for conversion therapy banning it |
| 1:38.6 | but not in the case of trans-conversion therapy and then I think on Northern Ireland as you wrote |
| 1:43.9 | last week in the spectator in your cover piece there was a line which does play into this idea that |
| 1:50.0 | the government could decide to start taking unilateral action when it's all about protecting |
| 1:54.9 | the Belfast Agreement. So I think those were all the key plans and there was also the Brexit |
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