UK King’s Speech at State Opening of Parliament: King Charles lays out Keir Starmer’s agenda [Video]

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.

Stabilising the UK’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 on Wednesday.

“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 prioritising wealth creation for all communities,” the king said in a speech to hundreds of lawmakers and scarlet-robed members of the House of Lords.