'Significant effect on HR' | Experts react as the King's Speech outlines big reforms for people leaders

King Charles set out the Government’s legislative agenda on Wednesday, promising a government of service focused on reviving the economy and tackling issues from an acute housing shortage to a cost of living crisis.

In a ceremony full of pageantry, before an audience of robed Lords and Members of Parliament, the monarch read out the laws the government is prioritising after the Labour Party won a landslide majority at the general election.

The package of more than 35 bills will focus on growing the economy, reforming planning laws to make it easier to build homes and speeding up the delivery of major infrastructure projects, improving transport and creating jobs.

Among the many plans put forth, the King announced that the new Government will be bringing in a new deal for working people to enhance employment rights, as part of its commitment to ‘make work pay’.