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Queen's speech 2009

December 2009

  • Queen expresses sadness at loss of UK troops in Christmas message

    Footage shown of British casualties in Afghanistan during monarch's Christmas Day broadcast
  • Legal minefield for public services

  • Estelle Morris

    Having a legal right to a good education doesn't mean you'll get one

    Estelle Morris
  • William Keegan

    William Keegan's in my view
    Economic optimism is inflated and there is a deficit of clear thinking

    William Keegan
    With no signs of green shoots, Mervyn King is right to be downbeat - whatever the Queen said
  • Stephen Timms

    Treasury secretary defends government's online piracy plans

    Stephen Timms claims piracy powers necessary to 'future-proof' government proposals to safeguard the UK's creative industries. By Richard Wray
  • Simon Hoggart

    Simon Hoggart's sketch
    I'm an MP … get me out of here!

    Simon Hoggart
    Simon Hoggart on how MPs reacted to the Queen's speech and why some called it an 'abracadabra speech'
  • Selected views

    Letters: You print a large photograph of David Cameron looking all shiny and a small, cropped photograph of a tired-looking prime minister
  • Elderly patient

    Tories accused of 'scaremongering' over social care plans

  • Queen Elizabeth II reads out the Queen's Speech at the House of Lords

    Politics Weekly UK
    Politics Weekly podcast: Queen's speech

  •  A caring geriatrician holds the hand of an elderly woman with arthritis

    Tories claim 2m elderly people could lose out under government care plans

  • Gordon Brown and David Cameron

    Cameron claims Queen's speech unravelling over MPs' expenses

  • Politics blog
    Three melancholy exchanges about the Queen's speech

  • Queen's speech: Gordon Brown's bid to defuse youth unemployment timebomb

  • Kelly reforms on MPs' expenses do not need legislation, No 10 insists

  • Guardian Opinion cartoon
    13 bills, seven minutes, one question: can it save Brown

    Steve Bell
  • Queen's speech I: Jaw-jaw and law-law

  • Simon Hoggart's sketch
    Caught in a place of fantasy

    Simon Hoggart
  • Gordon Brown laughing

    What did Gordon Brown find funny in the Queen's speech?

    An otherwise taciturn PM laughed during his traditionally uncomfortable walk with David Cameron

  • Michael White

    Michael White's political briefing
    Government wields duster to spruce up care bill

    Michael White
    Michael White: The first tentative steps towards the creation of a national care service didn't get more than a one-handed clap
  • British soldier killed in Afghanistan

    A soldier from the Royal Military Police was shot dead this morning in Helmand Province
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