By Ben Kerrigan-
The Queen’s speech has today promised tougher sentencing for terrorists as well as new laws promising higher NHS funding
The main new piece of legislation is an NHS funding bill that enshrines in law a £33.9bn cash increase in funding by 2023-4, in what appears to be largely a symbolic move. The new counter-terrorism bill was added in the wake of the London Bridge terrorist attack, presenting tougher sentences for serious terrorist offenders and a 14-year minimum term for the worst.Johnson claimed the legislative programme was designed to “move on” from Brexit and “focus on people’s priorities”,
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It also removes the option of early release for terrorists who receive an extended determinate sentence and move the earliest point for discretionary release from halfway to two-thirds of the way through sentence for terrorists who are deemed less dangerous. A third new element was the promise of “espionage legislation”, which would “provide the security services and law enforcement with the tools they need to disrupt hostile state activity”. The speech also includes the provision of fast tracked visas and support to come to the Uk for qualified doctors, nurses and health professionals as part of a points-based immigration system.
A new independent body to improve patient safety by investigating concerns raised by patients and plans to modernise and reform the Mental Health Act to give people greater influence on the type of care they receive was included in the Queen’s speech. The speech also promised hospitals to make and try new medicines and revealed a Royal Commission on the criminal justice system and separate review of every aspect of the post-Brexit constitutional settlement The promise on the Royal Commission on the criminal justice system has been seen as a reaction to his juidicial defeat in the Supreme Court on his attempt to prorogue parliament several months ago
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