New Labour government - legislative agenda

[Kid_Eternity]

First leak of what’s in the King’s speech next week; 30 bills including a democracy one which will lower voting age and (at last) introduce automatic voter registration!

UK ministers preparing king’s speech containing at least 30 bills

Exclusive: Programme to include devolution, housebuilding, crime, transport, AI and green energy

www.theguardian.com

 

[PR1Berske]

You'll find them here eventually, with links to debates, amendments etc

https://bills.parliament.uk/?SearchTerm=&Session=39&BillSortOrder=3&BillType=all&BillStage=&CurrentHouse=&OriginatingHouse=&Expanded=False

 

[Kid_Eternity]

You'll find them here eventually, with links to debates, amendments etc

https://bills.parliament.uk/?SearchTerm=&Session=39&BillSortOrder=3&BillType=all&BillStage=&CurrentHouse=&OriginatingHouse=&Expanded=False

Helpful, cheers!

 

[stavros]

Have they dumped the ID-to-vote thing too? I seem to remember they pledged that in opposition.

 

[skyscraper101]

Nothing on voting rights for prisoners either. There was also nothing in the Labour manifesto about it either.

Given the numerous rulings from the ECHR that the UK is in breach here (and indeed Starmer's own professional past as a human rights lawyer) you'd have thought it would be in there.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Have they dumped the ID-to-vote thing too? I seem to remember they pledged that in opposition.

Not in the manifesto?

 

[Johnny Vodka]

The SNP might be down in numbers but good to see them challenging Sir Kid Starver.

SNP join push to scrap two-child benefit cap

As the King's Speech approaches, Stephen Flynn says his party will try to force a vote if the policy is not scrapped.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[stavros]

Not in the manifesto?

Are you confirming it wasn't in the manifesto? I've just had a quick look for key words in it, and can't find any mention of it.

 

[PR1Berske]

Today's King Speech announcedc Bills, from The Guardian:




Budget Responsibility Bill
National Wealth Fund Bill
Pension Schemes Bill
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
Employment Rights Bill
English Devolution Bill
Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill
Better Buses Bill
Railways Bill
Bank Resolution (Recapitalisation) Bill
Arbitration Bill
Product Safety and Metrology Bill
Digital Information and Smart Data Bill
High Speed Rail (Crewe to Manchester) Billa
Great British Energy Bill
The Crown Estate Bill
Sustainable Aviation Fuel (Revenue Support Mechanism) Bill
Water (Special Measures) Bill
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
Crime and Policing Bill
Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Bill
Victims, Courts and Public Protection Bill
Children’s Wellbeing Bill
Skills England Bill
Renters’ Rights Bill
Football Governance Bill
Tobacco and Vapes Bill
Mental Health Bill
Hillsborough Law (this will be a bill, but No 10 has not said what it will be called)
Armed Forces Commissioner Bill
Northern Ireland Legacy Legislation (this involves repealing the Northern Ireland Troubles [Legacy and Reconciliation] Act, but the No 10 says repeal will require passing a new, replacement bill)
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
Cyber Security and Resilience Bill
Commonwealth Parliamentary Association and International Committee of the Red Cross (Status) Bill
Lords Spiritual (Women) Act 2015 (Extension) Bill
Holocaust Memorial Bill

 

[moochedit]

Today's King Speech announcedc Bills, from The Guardian:




Budget Responsibility Bill
National Wealth Fund Bill
Pension Schemes Bill
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
Employment Rights Bill
English Devolution Bill
Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Bill
Better Buses Bill
Railways Bill
Bank Resolution (Recapitalisation) Bill
Arbitration Bill
Product Safety and Metrology Bill
Digital Information and Smart Data Bill
High Speed Rail (Crewe to Manchester) Billa
Great British Energy Bill
The Crown Estate Bill
Sustainable Aviation Fuel (Revenue Support Mechanism) Bill
Water (Special Measures) Bill
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
Crime and Policing Bill
Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Bill
Victims, Courts and Public Protection Bill
Children’s Wellbeing Bill
Skills England Bill
Renters’ Rights Bill
Football Governance Bill
Tobacco and Vapes Bill
Mental Health Bill
Hillsborough Law (this will be a bill, but No 10 has not said what it will be called)
Armed Forces Commissioner Bill
Northern Ireland Legacy Legislation (this involves repealing the Northern Ireland Troubles [Legacy and Reconciliation] Act, but the No 10 says repeal will require passing a new, replacement bill)
House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill
Cyber Security and Resilience Bill
Commonwealth Parliamentary Association and International Committee of the Red Cross (Status) Bill
Lords Spiritual (Women) Act 2015 (Extension) Bill
Holocaust Memorial Bill

Is there any detail on what these bills actually do? Bit hard to tell from just a list of names.
(Not that i have a lot of hope with starmer)

 

[DotCommunist]

in the case of the renters rights bill the landlord scum had already been at it so it needs to be Not Like That. I would take but aren't going to happen but would be as close as these lot would ever get to what I want: semi autonomous third party like tenant deposit schemes, an org that can hold landlords to the fire in a legal sense (I would like it to be literal but hey ho). Gove couldn't get even a bit of it past his landlord colleagues and lets see if anyone in lab tries properly or if we just get the thinnest of gruel. Just putting a genuine stop to no fault evictions would be something not 'lets ignore the gross power imbalance and pretend negotiation with landlords is done from equal footing' stuff

 

[PR1Berske]

Is there any detail on what these bills actually do? Bit hard to tell from just a list of names.
(Not that i have a lot of hope with starmer)

When they're published, it'll be at the link at the top of this thread

 

[Chz]

Is further leasehold reform in the Renter's Rights, or have they pushed it back?

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Are you confirming it wasn't in the manifesto? I've just had a quick look for key words in it, and can't find any mention of it.

I don’t remember seeing it but only read it once and that was a month ago

 

[Kid_Eternity]

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[stavros]

I don’t remember seeing it but only read it once and that was a month ago

I only looked at it yesterday, and was aghast that young Starmer had his hand in his pocket on the cover. Disgraceful, when you think of his highly honourable predecessors.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

I only looked at it yesterday, and was aghast that young Starmer had his hand in his pocket on the cover. Disgraceful, when you think of his highly honourable predecessors.

 

[skyscraper101]

They've five years to sort it out I guess. Unsurprising it's not in this parliament.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

They've five years to sort it out I guess. Unsurprising it's not in this parliament.

Indeed.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Interesting they’ve kept the Tory smoking ban. Wonder what the numbers of health savings will look like in a decade?

 

[MrsArcanum]

How they can put in the Children's Wellbeing Bill, without at least changing the child benefit cap is bizarre.

 

[Pickman's model]

How they can put in the Children's Wellbeing Bill, without at least changing the child benefit cap is bizarre.

No it isn't.

 

[Pickman's model]

They've five years to sort it out I guess. Unsurprising it's not in this parliament.

The parliament lasts from now to the general election. During that time there will be a King's speech every year.

 

[Pickman's model]

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That's the best point you'll ever make on urban

 

[agricola]

Is further leasehold reform in the Renter's Rights, or have they pushed it back?

I think its just a rehash of Gove's old bill, the one that was compromised by landlords in advance.

 

[MrsArcanum]

No it isn't.

Even just increasing the cap to 3 children would help reduce child poverty.

 

[Pickman's model]

Even just increasing the cap to 3 children would help reduce child poverty.

yes indeed. but it is not bizarre that the proposal isn't in their child wellbeing bill.

 

[brogdale]

yes indeed. but it is not bizarre that the proposal isn't in their child wellbeing bill.

Completely; the agents of the neoliberal, consolidator state are not in place to threaten the regressive transfer of wealth from taxes on labour to the unearned income of capital.

 

[barlimo]

How they can put in the Children's Wellbeing Bill, without at least changing the child benefit cap is bizarre.

It's not going to help the UK's declining birth-rate. Having kids is fast becoming a luxury.

 

[nino_savatte]

There's nothing there that even suggests that the damage done to the HE sector by the previous Labour government and the Tories will be repaired. As for the FE sector: not a sausage.

Fuck Labour.