SIR KEIR Starmer has today unveiled the most left-wing government agenda in decades packed with nationalisation, new quangos and reams of red tape.
The Prime Minister has outlined sweeping housing reforms to get more Brits on the property ladder but unions set to welcome strike restrictions being torn up.
King Charles formally read out the government’s legislative agenda amongst 39 pieces of new legislation in Labour’s first King’s Speech in fifteen years.
Rail services, buses and reams of energy brought under public control - with big questions raised over how immigration clampdown will work in reality.
Hereditary peers will no longer be able to sit in the House of Lords or vote on legislation, under the plans.
The new PM claims his radical King’s Speech will “fix the foundations” of Britain and get growth going rather than implement the “dead end” of populist charm.
In major King's Speech announcements:
The new PM outlined a house-building blitz, give more powers to local leaders and bring rail services back into public ownership in a major drive for growth.
Sir Keir says his 39 pieces of legislation sets the country on the path to getting the country back on track, adding: “We start that journey immediately”.
He says the challenges the country faces require “determined, patient work and serious solutions”.
The PM says: “The snake oil charm of populism may sound seductive, but it drives us into the dead end of further division and greater disappointment”.
He adds: “We will serve every person, regardless of how they voted, to fix the foundations, of this nation for the long term.
By Martina Bet, Political Correspondent
JEREMY Corbyn-style plans that could open the floodgates to widespread industrial action were set out yesterday in Parliament.
Sir Keir Starmer used his first King's Speech to unveil legislation that will boost employment rights as well as hand huge amounts of power back to trade unions.
The Bill will make it easier for workers to strike by repealing a series of anti-trade union laws, which had restricted their ability to organise.
These include those aimed at ensuring a minimum level of service during strike days, stricter strike ballot requirements and increased notice periods for industrial action.
Ex-leader Mr Corbyn had pledged to do the same within 100 days of a Labour Government back 2017.
Other policies that are almost identical to those proposed by Mr Corbyn include banning “exploitative” zero-hours contracts and establishing a "Fair Work Agency", which will have the power to prosecute and fine companies that breach employment law.
Under the Employment Rights Bill, there will also be a new fair pay agreement in the adult social care sector to establish national terms and conditions and fair pay rates, as well as a “genuine” national living wage which removes “discriminatory” age bands.
The Government said the measures represent the biggest upgrade to workers’ rights in a generation and will improve the lives of working people across the country.
“The era of politics as performance and self-interest above service is over. The fight for trust is the battle that defines our political era.”
The PM, who swept to victory 13 days ago, said that only be making working people’s lives better and delivering change that politics can become a “force for good”.
He also takes a thinly-veiled swipe at ex-Tory leader Liz Truss and her mini-Budget by saying he will be “turning the page for good” on economic irresponsibility.
A new Budget Responsibility Bill, Ministers say, will ensure that the “economic chaos” will never happen again under Sir Keir’s watch.
The emphasis of the King’s Speech will be wealth creation with Sir Keir declaring he will “take the brakes off Britain”.
In a broad sweep of criticism aimed at the Tories’ 14 years in office, he takes aim at their “pervasive inability to face the future”.
By Harry Cole, Political Editor
BIG government is back!
Sir Keir Starmer has wasted no time on sweeping nationalisations and big interventions by the state.
The new PM's first King's Speech touches on almost every walk of life; from transport, to energy, to school uniforms and what you can eat, drink or smoke.
It's a worrying sign that the first chance he got, the Labour leader announced he is tearing up reams of trade union reforms that stopped militants grinding the country to a halt at the drop of hat.
And while employment rights laws sound cuddly, beware of the small print that businesses warn could tie them up in reams of new red tape and see working from home massively expanded.
Starmer says this will unleash growth but big questions remain on how - especially as he hands huge new powers to the Office of Budget Responsibility whose track record on their restrictive forecasts have been a disaster, so far.
More Equalities law could clog up our already backlogged courts, and we all know what "resetting our relationship with the EU" really means - closer ties to Brussels.
While Starmer talks a big game on immigration and smashing smuggling gangs, the King's Speech was light on details beyond an increase in powers for those already battling to keep our borders secure.
Where were the radical solutions there or any deterrents?
There was a worrying lack of detail too on the promised reforms to get the NHS off it's knees.
As the new PM moves from campaigner to guvnor, he does not have long to deliver results, especially given just one in five actually voted for him.
While there is plenty to welcome here on planning reform and getting houses built, there are plenty of sops here too - not least to the unions and the lefties.
Does anyone really think reform of the House of Lords is even in the top 100 issues facing Britain right now?
Yet valuable parliamentary time has now been earmarked for such battles.
Meanwhile Britain bumps around flatling growth and the NHS continues to be an almost insatiable money pit.
Will reams more red tape, fewer vapes, more strikes and more quangos really do anything to help that?
I'm not so sure...
Priorities for the government include ripping up planning laws by removing the power from local people so home building and national infrastructure projects get the green light.
Elected mayors and local leaders can be part of a devolution revolution so they have more say over energy and transport policies in their areas.
Railway companies will be brought back into public ownership when their contracts expire or if they fail to hit contractual commitments.
A new firm - GB Energy - will be established as the government pledge to remove fossil fuels from the electricity supplies by the end of the decade.
A new workers’ rights bill will ban zero-hours contracts and a ban on fire and rehire. However, this will be subject to a major consultation to assess the concerns of big business to avoid red tape.
Counter-terrorism powers will be set out allowing the authorities to crack down on people-smuggling gangs in a bid to stop migrants crossing the Channel.
Labour have also pledged to repeal anti-strike laws within 100 days of winning power. This would cancel laws that guarantee minimum staffing levels in schools and the health service on strike days.
