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The Telegraph has obtained a late draft of The Queen's Speech...
Queen's speech revealed: David Cameron's 500 day programme to change Britain
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A late draft of the Queen’s Speech, obtained by this newspaper, reveals that the Government will spell out an ambitious programme of at least 21 Bills to be introduced in the next 18 months.
Within days, the coalition Government intends to bring in key school reforms and scrap plans for ID cards.
A radical programme of political reform will get under way in the following weeks.
The speech has “freedom, fairness and responsibility” as its main themes and contains many key policies demanded by the Liberal Democrats as the price for their entry into the coalition government.
The measures to be announced within weeks could include a Parliamentary Reform Bill as well as Nick Clegg’s long-cherished “Great Repeals Bill”, containing measures which he has said would represent the biggest constitutional shake-up in 200 years. These plans are likely to alarm many Tory MPs and activists.
Five of the Bills will be led by the Treasury under George Osborne, reaffirming the Tory Chancellor’s primacy over Vince Cable, the Lib-Dem Business Secretary, whose department is almost absent from the draft list.
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The Queen's Speech: Bill by Bill