King’s Speech kicks off UK Labour government’s Parliament opening [Video]

• Britain’s new Labour Party government laid out its plans for “national renewal” at the grand State Opening of Parliament on Wednesday, centering on stabilizing the country’s public finances and spurring economic growth.
• King Charles III delivered the King’s Speech, an announcement of the laws his government intends to pass in the coming year and the centerpiece of the State Opening.
• The speech included 40 bills, compared to the Conservatives’ last speech which had just 21, ranging from house building to nationalizing Britain’s railways.

Britain’s new Labour Party government promised to calm the country’s febrile politics and ease its cost-of-living crisis as it set out its plans for “national renewal” at the grand State Opening of Parliament on Wednesday.

Stabilizing the U.K.’s public finances and spurring economic growth were at the center of Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s legislative agenda, announced in a speech written by government officials and delivered by King Charles III.

“My government will …