(ANSA) – LONDON, APRIL 28 – The British Parliament in Westminster, which returned to meet ten days ago after the Easter break, closes its doors again today for a couple of weeks as part of the usual ‘extension’: the suspension of classroom work in the House of Commons and that of Lords preceding the inauguration of a new parliamentary session marked by the Queen’s Speech, the speech in which the queen usually reads the government’s annual program for the following year in front to the assembled rooms.
In this 2022 the Queen’s Speech has been set for Tuesday 10 May. And, according to the announcements, the 96-year-old Queen Elizabeth – expected in June also by the key events of the Platinum Jubilee of her 70-year reign – should be regularly present in the classroom for the ritual reading with the heir to the side by her side. throne Charles; unless she is forced to pay yet another last-minute forfeit that would be in fact unprecedented for her on an institutional occasion like this. In the meantime, the closure of the Chambers still offers a few days of respite to the conservative premier, Boris Johnson, from the queues of the so-called Partygate scandal (on the gatherings organized in Downing Street between 2020 and 2021 in violation of the anti Covid restrictions then in force) which is recently returned to question its political future. An event which, moreover, could return to overshadow her leadership in the Tory house if the result of the round of local elections scheduled for Thursday 5 May were to prove particularly negative for the majority party. (HANDLE).
Source: Ansa
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