Fresh off a commanding election win, Boris Johnson shows no sign of moderating the hard-right governing vision he campaigned on
Everything’s coming up Boris. Photo: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images A week after carrying the Conservative Party to its biggest election victory since 1987, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson unveiled an ambitious agenda on Thursday at the formal opening of Parliament, promising to deliver Brexit on time and forge ahead with a “radical” domestic program he described as a “blueprint for the future of Britain” — which he aims to lead for the next decade.
Johnson successfully campaigned on a promise to “Get Brexit Done” by the current deadline of January 31. To underscore the seriousness of this intent, the government plans to shut down the Department for Exiting the European Union in January and will soon stop using the word “Brexit” in official documents.
Beyond Brexit, the main feature of the Queen’s Speech is a plan to enshrine in law a commitment to increase the funding of the NHS by £33.9 billion per year by 2023–24 — a symbolic departure from the Tories’ belt-tightening platform of the past decade, but still less than the opposition Labour Party says the system needs to recover from the impact of previous Conservative governments’ austerity measures.
And, of course, no right-wing domestic agenda today would be complete without a plan to “stop public institutions from imposing their own approach or views about international relations, through preventing boycotts, divestment or sanctions campaigns against foreign countries and those who trade with them” — a proposal that, though worded generally, is clearly aimed at universities with regard to Israel — and, of course, a voter ID law.
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