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King's Speech outlines 37 bills including nationalisation, housing and policing reforms

King Charles set out a programme of 37 bills for the coming session, covering steel nationalisation, housing and leasehold reform, police restructuring, immigration, energy, and digital measures, while coverage was overshadowed by speculation around Sir Keir Starmer's leadership.

The King's Speech set out 37 bills for the next parliamentary session, including a Steel Industry (Nationalisation) Bill giving ministers powers to fully nationalise British Steel subject to a public-interest test.

Housing measures include a Commonhold and Leasehold reform that would ban leasehold for new flats and cap ground rents, and a Social Housing Renewal measure exempting new homes from the Right to Buy for 35 years.

Safety and remediation are addressed through a new Remediation Bill that would make construction product manufacturers pay toward removing unsafe cladding, alongside wider building-standards and tenant-protection proposals.

Health and governance changes include an NHS Modernisation measure to abolish the arm’s-length body (NHS England) structure and put mayoral nominees on local health boards, while constitutional measures would allow changes to the Sovereign Grant.

Security and foreign-threat proposals include a Tackling State Threats Bill to ban state-linked groups such as the IRGC, together with a National Security Bill and measures on policing, courts and immigration.

What position do you feel closer to?

Labour reform supporters

The 37‑bill programme is a bold, necessary use of Labour’s mandate to rebuild a fairer, greener, more secure Britain; leadership gossip is a damaging distraction from this work.

Programme & Starmer skeptics

An overloaded, interventionist programme launched amid a leadership crisis risks unstable lawmaking, civil liberties overreach and weak delivery of even the good ideas.

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