In an address to peers and MPs in the Houses of Lords, British Queen will set out an One Nation programme of tax cuts, job creation and house building as she arrives at the Houses of Parliament to deliver the first Conservative Queen's Speech for two decades. David Cameron is promising tax cuts for 30 million people as he sets out a 'Queen's Speech for working people'. The Prime Minister says he has a 'mandate from the British people' to implement his manifesto in full in the first Conservative Queen's Speech in two decades.
In an ambitious programme of laws to be passed in the next 12 months, Mr Cameron will vow his One Nation government will offer 'a good education, a decent job, a home of your own and a secure retirement'.
The State Opening of Parliament sees the Queen travel from Buckingham Palace to the Houses of Parliament in one of the great occasions of the political calendar. It is the 62nd time during her reign that the Queen has delivered a speech setting out the laws and reforms of the government of the day.
Mr Cameron hopes to use today to seize the political initiative while his opponents are still licking their wounds from their election defeat. The Prime Minister is reclaiming the 'One Nation' slogan briefly adopted by Labour under Ed Miliband to promise 'security and opportunity for everyone'.
The programme aimed at blue-collar workers, includes a pledge that workers on the minimum wage will pay no income tax. A law will be passed to ensure that as the minimum wage rises, the point at which income tax kicks in will also increase. It will mean that anyone working 30 hours a week on the minimum wage will not pay any income tax. Taking the personal allowance to £12,500 will benefit 30million people, Downing Street said.
The Queen's Speech includes a new law ruling out increases in VAT, income tax or National Insurance rates for the next five years. The government also commits to creating 2million more jobs as part of its ambition for full employment, including the creation of 3million more apprenticeships. Working parents will be promised help with childcare, with free care for 3 and 4-year-olds doubling to 30 hours per week.
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