2019 May

We are breaking records again, with the longest time without a Queen’s Speech. This is a bizarre state of affairs. I do not know of any other Government being run like this, particularly as there have been only five years since 1900 in which a Queen’s Speech has not taken place. It feels like the Government do not want to or cannot get their legislative agenda through Parliament.

HM Opposition Labour Party tabled the following Opposition Day motion on 1 May 2019 calling on Parliament to declare an environment and climate emergency: