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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
24 November 2009
Legal minefield for public services
Having a legal right to a good education doesn't mean you'll get one
Estelle Morris
22 November 2009
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
20 November 2009
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'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
19 November 2009
Tories accused of 'scaremongering' over social care plans
Politics Weekly UK
Politics Weekly podcast: Queen's speech
Tories claim 2m elderly people could lose out under government care plans
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
18 November 2009
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'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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