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Portrait of the week: King’s Speech, Trump shot and Rouen cathedral in flames

issue 20 July 2024

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The government funnelled three dozen bills into the King’s Speech, highlighting one to make a specific offence of spiking a drink, which is already illegal. But backbenchers and Labour in Scotland failed in efforts to remove the cap of two children for the payment of child benefit. A new state-owned energy company would be set up and railways nationalised.

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