The government used the annual King’s Speech to outline a series of proposed engineering- and technology-related bills for the next parliamentary session.
Yesterday King Charles III delivered the ‘King’s Speech’ at the State Opening of Parliament, a ceremonial event marking the start of a new parliamentary year. Although delivered by the monarch in his role as the UK head of state, the speech itself is written by the government, laying out its policies and proposed laws for the year ahead.
King Charles set the tone for the government’s agenda at the start of his speech by warning that “an increasingly dangerous and volatile world threatens the United Kingdom, with the conflict in the Middle East only the most recent example”.
He said the government would “respond to this world” by making “decisions that protect the energy, defence and economic security of the United Kingdom for the long term”.
It plans to do this through a series of policies and proposed bills, including:
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