Ceremony, bills and a joke

Nothing especially exciting to report on State Opening day yet.  The Queen’s delivered her Speech, leading with the line that “My Government’s overriding priority is to ensure stability of the British economy during the global economic downturn” (see full text here).  And Dennis Skinner’s delivered his traditional “joke”, asking whether there are “Any Tory moles in the Palace?”  Much more likely that any fireworks will come later, when we’ll see both Michael Martin’s statement on the Damian Green arrest and Parliamentary debate over the Government’s legislative programme.

P.S. Good point from James Kirkup on the deemphasising of constitutional reform.