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Queen's speech

September 2022

  • Queen Elizabeth II in 2011.

    ‘She has been the one and only stable female in my life’: Jeanette Winterson on mourning the Queen

    ‘When I realised there was going to be an announcement about her death, I changed into black and waited. She deserved that. Part of us goes with her’

14 May 2022

  • The families of some of the 10 victims shot dead by British soldiers in Ballymurphy in 1971 marching in Belfast, 8 August 2021.

    My relative was killed at Ballymurphy. Reconciliation won’t happen unless Troubles victims are heard

    Liam Conlon
    Our pain doesn’t come with an end date. Without delivering justice, the government’s Northern Ireland bill won’t work, says Liam Conlon

12 May 2022

  • The Imperial Crown as the Prince of Wales reads the Queen's Speech during the State Opening of Parliament in the House of Lords.

    A Queen’s speech devoid of ideas or compassion

  • Martin Kettle

    Ignore the pomp: thanks to Boris Johnson, Britain has never been less united

    Martin Kettle

11 May 2022

  • Cartoon 12.05.2022

    Guardian Opinion cartoon
    Martin Rowson on the Queen’s speech – cartoon

    Boris Johnson has been accused of being ‘bereft of ideas’ after a speech that made little mention of the cost of living crisis
  • Shami Chakrabarti

    This British ‘bill of rights’ is constitutional butchery that will make us all less free

    Shami Chakrabarti
    The 1998 Human Rights Act, an outstanding legal achievement, is being taken apart simply to empower the government, says former shadow attorney general, Shami Chakrabarti

    • Expect to see more of Prince Charles. This is a slow-motion abdication

      Ed Owens

    • Gove angers cost of living campaigners by ruling out emergency budget

    • First Edition newsletter
      Wednesday briefing: How Boris Johnson could have tackled the cost of living crisis

10 May 2022

  • Keir Starmer and Boris Johnson walk through the central lobby at the Palace of Westminster, ahead of the state opening of parliament

    Queen’s speech: Boris Johnson ‘bereft of ideas’ to tackle cost of living crisis

  • John Crace

    The politics sketch
    Charles’s Queen’s speech surpassed in dullness by Starmer-Johnson show

    John Crace
  • Keir Starmer and Boris Johnson on their way to the Queen’s speech.

    The Guardian view on the Queen’s speech: Boris Johnson fails to deliver for voters

  • Boris Johnson speaking in the House of Commons after the Queen's speech

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Queen’s speech proposals show Johnson ‘bereft of ideas or purpose’, says Starmer – as it happened

  • The Tories are going all out to shut down protest. Just Stop Oil activists like me will not be deterred

    Anonymous

  • Rishi Sunak to weaken City regulation in post-Brexit nod to Tory donors

  • Queen’s speech shows Boris Johnson is out of ideas, says Labour

  • Bill banning conversion practices will only fully cover under-18s, No 10 says

  • Queen remains ‘very much in charge’ even as Charles makes speech

  • Ports and unions criticise Shapps’ plan for law on seafarers’ minimum wage

  • ‘Criminalising our right to protest’: green groups’ anger over public order bill

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