OPINION - The Standard View: The King's Speech is Keir Starmer's time to turn missions into reality
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The election is over — now the governing begins. The King returned to Parliament to deliver the first Labour King’s or Queen’s Speech in 14 years, and it was a bumper one. A package of some 40 bills was included, aimed full square at the Prime Minister’s five missions, not least on kick-starting economic growth.