LAST month’s Kings Speech took place against the most extraordinary backdrop.
We knew the carriages were booked, that the horses were ready and that the King was coming, but would we have a Prime Minister?
The Prime Minister is in office but not in power. It is clear his authority has gone and that he will not be able to deliver what little there is in the King’s Speech.
This is a government less than two years in office who have already run out of ideas and run out of road.
Everything that has gone wrong in Labour’s first two years comes back to one problem: it came into office with no plan.
The Conservatives published an alternative King’s Speech because we have a plan, and we know we need to take tough decisions to get the country out of the mess we are in by cutting wasteful spending, funding defence, securing our borders and reducing the cost of energy.
If you want to bring down bills for families in North West Essex and bring industry back to this country, you need a plan to scrap the net zero legislation that is strangling industry and making energy costs higher.
That is why we are proposing a cheap energy bill to do just that.
If you want businesses in Chelmsford and Uttlesford to employ people, you need to stop crushing them with thousands of pages of employment laws and stop handing power to the unions.
You need to stop hammering them with tax rises. That is why Conservatives are proposing a get Britain working bill, which would scrap laws that are no longer fit for purpose and are killing jobs.
If you want to get a grip on illegal immigration and remove foreign criminals from the country, you must have a plan to leave the European convention on human rights and repeal the Human Rights Act.
Our alternative King’s Speech shows how it can be done, letting the government, not the courts, decide who comes and goes.
Conservatives are clear we must reduce welfare spending, which is eating every penny that we generate in income tax and more.
We must spend much more on defence. That is why we are proposing a sovereign defence fund that will overhaul Britain’s defence industrial base.
Our alternative King’s Speech lays out our plans for a stronger economy and a stronger country, because it is only the Conservatives that have a serious plan to get Britain working again.
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