ELECTIONS

Queen's Speech or Minority report?

With a minority government, the good news is, it will be easy to block bad legislation, writes Heather Jameson. The bad news is we could see inertia.

The delay to the Queen's Speech has raised key questions over where the Government – and the country – is headed now.

What is clear is that the problem is not really goatskin parchment or the drying time for the ink used. Nice try, spin doctors. Instead, it is a prime minister rightly trying to work out just what she can achieve with a minority government.

Heather Jameson

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