Starmer Leads on Security in King’s Speech With Own Job at Risk

Keir Starmer’s government vowed to protect the UK against external and economic threats in a King’s Speech that majored on security even as the prime minister faces a potential challenge to his own leadership.

Buttressed by all the pomp and pageantry the British state can muster, King Charles III on Wednesday delivered the parliamentary set-piece in the House of Lords, outlining some three dozen bills and draft bills that Starmer’s Labour administration plans to push through Parliament in the coming months. They included legislation for closer EU ties and a tighter immigration system, as well as reforms to the police, National Health Service, courts, railways and water industry.