It’s Queen’s Speech day in parliament today and in traditional style, two lucky government MPs have been chosen to propose and second the Loyal Address to Her Majesty. This involves two backbenchers – one typically older, the other a newly-elected type – delivering a humorous speech ostensibly on the government’s legislative agenda but which actually riffs on various issues of the day.
And so it fell to Graham Stuart, a 17-year parliamentary veteran, to kick things off this afternoon with a well-received performance poking fun at Sir Keir Starmer’s difficulties over ‘Beergate.’ He began by joking that ‘never has so much karma come from a korma’ before referencing the Tories’ past gains in Labour’s traditional Red Wall, quipping that, for Sir Keir ‘the only thing opening up for him in the north of England is a police investigation.’
Then it was the turn of Fay Jones, a member of the 2019 intake who hails from the Welsh constituency of Brecon and Radnorshire.
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