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		</div><p>A crackdown on crime dominated the first Queen’s Speech of Boris Johnson’s premiership.</p>
<p>With the UK Prime Minister pushing for a snap general election the legislative programme presented at the state opening of parliament is being seen as a bid by Mr Johnson to set out his campaign agenda.</p>
<p>The Queen said: <em>&#8220;New sentencing laws will see that the most serious offenders spend longer in custody to reflect better the severity of their crimes.”</em></p>
<p>A Sentencing Bill will change the automatic release point from halfway to two thirds for adult offenders serving sentences of four years or more for serious violence or sexual offences.</p>
<p>Other measures include strengthening environmental protections, reforming adult social care and improving the NHS, and raising living standards through increasing the national living wage to £10.50 an hour.</p>
<p>At the same time ministers are preparing to rush through a bill to ratify any Brexit deal Mr Johnson is able to agree this week in Brussels in time for Britain to leave on the EU on October 31.</p>
<p>Ahead of the speech, Chancellor Sajid Javid announced he is planning to hold a Budget just six days after the UK’s scheduled Brexit date.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">On 6th November I&#39;ll deliver Britain&#39;s first Budget after Brexit and set out our plan to shape the economy and deliver our infrastructure revolution. <a href="https://t.co/Lca2V0RaaL">https://t.co/Lca2V0RaaL</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Sajid Javid (@sajidjavid) <a href="https://twitter.com/sajidjavid/status/1183625648910278657?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 14, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>With no Commons majority, it is questionable how much of the proposed legislation in the Queen’s Speech ministers can get through Parliament before a general election.</p>
<p>And there is a major question mark over whether MPs will pass the legislative programme, which will go to a vote after several days of debate.</p>
<p>The law and order package includes a bill to “drastically” increase the sentences for foreign criminals who return to the UK in breach of a deportation order, a move ministers say will help disrupt the activities of international crime gangs.</p>
<p>Proposed legislation will make it easier for police to arrest internationally wanted fugitives who are the subject of an Interpol Red notice without the need to apply for a UK arrest warrant, a process that can take a minimum of six to eight hours.</p>
<p>Initially it will only apply to those issued by a limited number of countries with trusted justice systems, the other members of the Five Eyes intelligence group, the US, Australia, Canada and New Zealand, and two non-EU European states, Switzerland and Liechtenstein.</p>
<p>However the UK government will be able to add other countries by statutory instrument.</p>
<p>The programme includes a “Helen’s Law” bill, named after 22-year-old Helen McCourt who was murdered in 1988, to deny parole to murderers who withhold information about their victims.</p>
<p>The British government will also bring back the Domestic Abuse Bill which fell as a result of Mr Johnson’s unlawful suspension of Parliament last month.</p>
<p>Mr Johnson said in a statement: <em>&#8220;People are rightly horrified by the spate of violent crime plaguing our streets, including the sickening rise in knife-related homicides.”</em></p>
<p>Other measures in the speech include:</p>
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<li>Environment Bill setting legally binding targets to reduce plastics, restore biodiversity, improve water quality and cut air pollution.</li>
<li>Immigration and Social Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill to end freedom of movement and introduce a points-based immigration system from 2021.</li>
<li>Railway reform with a white paper setting out proposals to overhaul the current system of franchising and creating a new commercial model.</li>
<li>Action on building standards in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire with the establishment of a new regulator with powers to impose criminal sanctions for breaches of building regulations.</li>
<li>NHS Health Investigations Bill will create a new independent body with legal powers to ensure patient safety.</li>
<li>Mental health reform to reduce the number of detentions under the Mental Health Act by ensuring more people get the treatment they need.</li>
</ol>
<p>Mr Johnson is promising to deliver on a pledge by his predecessor Theresa May to ensure all tips are paid to waiting staff following an outcry that some major restaurant chains – such as Giraffe and Prezzo – were keeping as much as 10% of tips paid by card.</p>
<p><em>The Employment (Allocation of Tips) Bill will put a legal obligation on restaurateurs to “pass on all trips, gratuities and services charges to workers without deductions”.</em></p>
<p>Labour has dismissed the decision to hold the speech before the British government goes to the country as a “cynical stunt”.</p>
<p>Shadow home secretary Diane Abbott said: <em>&#8220;</em><em>This Queen’s Speech is farcical.</em></p>
<p><em>“It is just an uncosted wish list which the government has no intention and no means to deliver, and nothing more than a pre-election party political broadcast.”</em></p>
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