With Keir Starmer’s premiership hanging by a thread, the King delivered His Government’s legislative programme for the year ahead.

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This included legislation “to strengthen ties with the European Union”. The proposed European Partnership Bill will place new rules agreed with the EU on agri-food, electricity, and emissions trading onto the British statute books. Alongside this, a parallel Regulating for Growth Bill will compel British regulators to accede to EU-aligned rule-making.

The King’s Speech was the next step of a pivot the Prime Minister had announced earlier in the week when he stood before the cameras and declared that his Labour Government would be “defined by building our relationship with Europe”.

Following Labour’s worst local election drubbing in thirty years, and with close to 100 of his own MPs calling for him to step down, Sir Kier Starmer has bet his political survival squarely on returning Britain to Brussels’ orbit.

This would entail ‘dynamic alignment’,........

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