As the UK's incoming Parliament opens with the traditional royal pomp and circumstance, FRANCE 24's Genie Godula is joined by Dr Victoria Honeyman, Associate Professor of British Politics at the University of Leeds. 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. Stabilising 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 delivered by King Charles III.
