BREAKING: UK Parliament opens with royal pomp, new govt announces bills for ‘national renewal’

PM Keir Starmer had promised change at modest cost to taxpayers. He aims to be both pro-worker and pro-business, in favor of vast new eco-friendly projects.

Britain’s new Labour Party government promised to calm the country’s febrile politics and ease its cost-of-living crisis as it set out its plans for “national renewal” at the grand State Opening of Parliament on Wednesday.

King Charles III looks up as he waits to read the King’s Speech, as Queen Camilla sits beside him during the State Opening of Parliament in the House of Lords, London, Wednesday, July 17, 2024.

King Charles III’s speech will set out the agenda of the UK’s first Labour government for 14 years.

(AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, Pool) King Charles III looks up as he waits to read the King’s Speech, as Queen Camilla sits beside him during the State Opening of Parliament in the House of Lords, London, Wednesday, July 17, 2024.

King Charles III’s speech will set out the agenda of the UK’s first Labour government for 14 years. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, Pool)

Stabilizing the U.K.’s public finances and spurring economic growth were at the center of Prime Minister Keir Starmer ’s legislative agenda, announced in a speech written by government officials and delivered by King Charles III.

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“My government will seek a new partnership with both business and working people and help the country move on from the recent cost of living challenges by prioritizing wealth creation for all communities,” the king said in a speech to hundreds of lawmakers and scarlet-robed members of the House of Lords.