Eyes to the right
Soothing soundbites put a gloss on a radical agenda
ON MAY 27th David Cameron and his fellow newly elected MPs trooped into the House of Lords for the peculiar ritual of the Queen’s Speech, in which the monarch solemnly reads out the government’s agenda for the forthcoming parliamentary session. As the Queen soldiered through the prime minister’s list of proposals, she promised on his behalf a uniting, “one nation” Conservatism to soothe a fractious country. The new government’s agenda could, however, shake up Britain in a radical way.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Eyes to the right”
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