What can we expect from the King's Speech?

Rishi Sunak to lay 'political traps' for Labour but ministers urge 'managerial' PM to be more ambitious

Rishi Sunak, King Charles with a smartphone, football, knives
Tuesday will see the first King's Speech in 70 years
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Rishi Sunak will use the first King's Speech in 70 years to draw clear dividing lines with Labour before the next general election as well as to set out a legislative agenda for the coming parliament.

Tuesday's speech will be one of those "bizarrely British mashups of arcane tradition… and modern politics", said Laura Kuenssberg for the BBC.

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Elliott Goat is a freelance writer at The Week Digital. A winner of The Independent's Wyn Harness Award, he has been a journalist for over a decade with a focus on human rights, disinformation and elections. He is co-founder and director of Brussels-based investigative NGO Unhack Democracy, which works to support electoral integrity across Europe. A Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellow focusing on unions and the Future of Work, Elliott is a founding member of the RSA's Good Work Guild and a contributor to the International State Crime Initiative, an interdisciplinary forum for research, reportage and training on state violence and corruption.