Nearly two weeks after the election, Conservatives have failed to secure a "confidence and supply" agreement with the Democratic Unionist Party to shore up Mrs May's minority administration.
"There's still the possibility, there's every possibility of a DUP deal". The state opening took place only days after another huge annual event, Trooping the Color, a celebration of the queen's birthday. Clearly, two political parties, we have some differences, but we have a lot in common.
Talks between the Conservatives and the Democratic Unionist Party have not gone as "expected", the northern Irish party has said.
Green said he could not give details of the speech before it was delivered, but insisted it would be a full legislative programme with the "biggest element" being bills associated with Brexit. In remarks in the debate that followed the speech, she acknowledged government failings in helping victims of the London high-rise fire on June 14 that killed at least 79 people.
While the queen reads the Queen's Speech to lawmakers, it is written by the prime minister and her staff and offers a broad brush of goals for the future.
Shortly before the event, Buckingham Palace announced that the queen's husband, Prince Philip, 96, was admitted to hospital on Tuesday evening as a "precautionary measure".
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Thanks to the loss of her party's majority in the general election and her heavily criticised response to the Grenfell Tower disaster, May is a Prime Minister shorn of authority.
Earlier, Mr Jones urged the prime minister to "put the United Kingdom economy above political self-interest" and reconsider plans for a "hard Brexit for which she has no mandate", after losing her House of Commons majority in the general election earlier this month.
"Talks are ongoing with the DUP and we continue to work towards a confidence and supply arrangement", the source said, adding that the parties had shared objectives on issues like Brexit, fighting terrorism and spreading prosperity. It was not mentioned in the speech was because no date had been set, May's office said. And as Theresa May troops in with the first minority government for 40 years, her effective loss of the Tory crown will be all too obvious.
Her backbenchers, including some of her most vociferous critics, have made clear that they will back the government at this point, but they have made no promises for continued support in the medium term.
Dame Vera says she will now be writing to Mrs May to encourage her to deliver a draft bill that supports victims of domestic abuse, rather than the current proposals which she argues are very light and appear to offer limited change.
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