The UK government has been at work on a speech for King Charles, with over 30 new bills in the pipeline. From there, it includes automatic voter registration, reducing the voting age to 16 years, housebuilding, green energy, and regulating AI. These are Labour manifesto vows to be fulfilled: GB Energy, railway nationalization, and tighter border security.

It’s the speech the UK government will prepare for King Charles, which is to unveil more than 30 new laws on such issues as housebuilding, green energy, crime, and voting registration. Labour camp ministers have been working on these plans in order to fulfill the commitments that were made during their campaign.

There has been pointed out that a speech due to be delivered by King Charles on Tuesday at the opening of parliament is still at draft stage. It will contain an automatic voter registration democracy bill, where there is likely to be provisions for a reduction in voting age from 18 to 16 years.

Another important point in the speech was the bill aiming at increasing housebuilding and providing more powers on energy, transport, skills, and planning directly to local mayors, as well as councils. This could bring back canceled bus routes and set affordable fares.

A new duty will be imposed on the Office for Budget Responsibility to publish independent forecasts of key fiscal events. It tries to avoid situations like the mini-budget of 2022. Rachel Reeves said that her government is committed to bringing this rule within its first hundred days. The speech will also herald an energy independence bill, which includes a new public clean energy company, GB Energy, and plans for the nationalization of the railways.

Two new Home Office Bills will be put forward: one against people smugglers who are to be treated like terrorists, and another against antisocial behavior and drug trafficking. There will also be several technology-related bills, including a set of plans for the regulation of AI and another banning the creation of explicit deep-fake images.

This will ensure ethnic minority workers have an equal pay right with the race equality bill. The King’s speech will also give new life to some of the plans initially rolled out by the previous Conservative government. They include bills for phasing out smoking for the next generation and the creation of a regulator for men’s elite football in England.

Martyn’s law will be included too. It will mean that venues prepare for terror attacks. It is named in memory of Martyn Hett, who was killed in the 2017 Manchester Arena attack. His mother feels she was let down by Rishi Sunak, who did not begin work on the law before calling the election. It will also include a Hillsborough law.

Under this, public servants will have to give truthful evidence at public inquiries and investigations. Both these measures were in Labour’s manifesto promises. A senior Labour source reacted to the plans outlined in the King’s speech and termed the forthcoming parliamentary session as jam-packed.

The 2019 Queen’s speech contained 22 bills in the main text and six more in accompanying documents. That is comparable to the Queen’s speeches in 1997 and 2015, which had 26 bills each.
There is a call for revamping constituency boundaries by population rather than the number of registered voters. That would mean children and immigrants were measured, unlike the current system. There is a feeling the method has thrown up lopsided constituencies where MPs for cities represent more significant populations.