Labour promises ‘packed’ agenda in King’s Speech

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The Government is poised to present a “packed” legislative agenda focused on economic growth in the King’s Speech on Wednesday. Downing Street said the Prime Minister had begun Tuesday’s Cabinet meeting by thanking ministers for their work on the agenda – the first Speech from the Throne under a Labour Government in 14 years – while Commons Leader Lucy Powell said it represented “a packed legislative agenda and the Government’s determination to return politics to public service”. Wednesday’s Speech is expected to include around 35 Bills with a heavy emphasis on securing economic growth, the first of Sir Keir Starmer’s five “missions for national renewal”. There is no time to waste Sir Keir Starmer Other measures could include the reintroduction of Rishi Sunak’s proposed ban on anyone born after 2009 buying tobacco, measures to help renationalise the railways and a new, strengthened version of the Renters Reform Bill that sought to end no-fault evictions.