Helen Catt
Political correspondent

For a government, the King’s Speech is about setting priorities.

It’s not prescriptive: not every bill that’s announced later will necessarily make it through and the government may well pass other laws that aren’t in the speech.

It is also only a programme of legislation for the next session of Parliament, which usually lasts a year, so it won’t contain everything that was in Labour’s manifesto.

Financial measures, like changes to taxes, are also unlikely to be covered as those will come in the Budget later this year.

However, it’s a good guide to what the government thinks is most important, particularly as this is the first King’s Speech of a new Parliament.

These are the laws that this government think are the most important to get passed first.

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