The program set out in the so-called Queen's Speech at Wednesday's state opening of Parliament will include "a number of bills" meant to make Brexit successful.
As part of the dress-down version of the grand State Opening, the monarch arrived in a auto instead of a carriage and wore a day dress instead of her traditional robes. Buckingham Palace said Philip, 96, was hospitalized as a precaution for treatment of an infection.
A planned state visit by U.S. President Donald Trump to Britain will go ahead although no date for the trip has been fixed, British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said on Wednesday following local media reports that it had been postponed.
For now, details on how exactly the British government will do so remain sparse, but the speech does appear to signal preparations for a clean break with the EU.
The circumstance, however - the speech's role mapping British legislative priorities for the new parliamentary session - remained as crucial and revealing as ever.
Signaling the importance of Brexit negotiations with the European Union, set to continue until the spring of 2019, the speech set out the government's program for two years, rather than one.
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She also addressed the need to review counterterrorism strategies after attacks in Manchester and London and expressed the government's commitment to the Paris agreement on climate change.
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.
A humbled Theresa May presented a filleted Queen's Speech today, still uncertain that it would receive Commons backing next week.
In other respects, her speech - which is shaped by the governing party's priorities - was notable for what it left out entirely. "The formality is you can not put the date of the president's state visit into the Queen's speech until it has been actually agreed".
"They have got the right to bring forward their own programme, but I dont believe, actually, that they are legitimate in the sense that they have got a mandate that they asked for", Labours shadow chancellor Jon McDonnell said.
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