King’s Speech LIVE: Latest updates from State Opening of Parliament
King Charles will today announce more than 30 draft laws as he outlines Sir Keir Starmer‘s plans to ‘take the brakes off Britain’ at the State Opening of Parliament.
Making his first King’s Speech under a Labour government, the monarch is expected to set out legislation on illegal migration, housing, planning, workers’ rights and railway nationalisation.
The King will travel from Buckingham Palace to Westminster to deliver his address in the House of Lords on a day packed with pomp and ceremony as the new Parliament officially opens.
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Obviously we accept and agree that more houses need to be built, but they need to be built in the right places.
For example, in my view, they should be built on brownfield sites in city centres, those kinds of places first looking at maybe new towns, but what we should not be doing is ripping up the green belt.
He said housing should be built on brownfield sites and by building high in town and city centres – for example in Canary Wharf or the Greenwich Peninsula in London.
They are talking about huge chunks of the green belt, not the odd car park. You can’t just suddenly claim that a whole load of green belt is now called the grey belt and it’s okay to build on it. I mean, that’s just obviously a piece of nonsensical and shameless spin.
Labour – Our planning reforms may be controversial
We were very clear during the election campaign that we would come out of this on the side of getting things built more quickly.
That may be controversial in some places, I’ve no doubt that it will be.
But it’s reasonable for people to expect that, if we said that during the campaign, it’s what they see when the King’s Speech is published later today.
If we do nothing on this, we will continue with a situation where there’s a whole generation of young people for whom the aspiration of owning their own home, or sometimes even renting one at a reasonable price, will continue to be unrealisable.
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