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will show that there will not be great rebellions. One possible idea

for the government is not to legislate very much. Legislation

equals votes. Can they get away with that? Absolutely, and that is what

they will try and do. The Queen 's speech will probably be very bare,

there will have to be Brexit and some money and some narrative around

the money but things like grammar schools and health, health was a

controversial issue in the last Parliament, so you only ever saw

Private members bills, you never saw an actual Health Bill going through

Parliament. Anything like that, that could be controversial, they will

avoid doing. And a new, these Government don't

hold, since a pneumatic has only promoted new bills. -- two bills. A

Government can proceed without too much legislation. And I have heard

that people are hoping to see a lot of things in the manifesto dropped.

In particular, fox hunting. I think you're going to see a slimmed down

Queen's speech. That doesn't necessarily mean that the Government

would be able to carry on, but it might mean there isn't much for

Parliament to do. I wonder whether Parliament will sit that often.

Maybe we will see... This Brexit stuff, the famous Great Repeal Bill,

we could talk for hours and days a month on. Yes, this is a discussion

we have been having earlier about the fact that there are to options,

there is either listing every single item that has to be put into UK

legislation, or just saying that from such and such a day, everything

that was European law is now in the UK law, but of course, when you have

things like the European medicines agency, if you're going to have

something that mirrors its functions, you also have to have the

agency itself. So these kinds of minute details are going to be

enormously conjugated to get through. So I think there will be a

lot for the parliament to do. I think you might also a minority

Government situation, that the Government comes under pressure to

allow more Parliamentary scrutiny of that process than they would have

had to if they have had a big majority. Gus that we are ending our

live coverage of the meeting of the new parliament, John Bercow safely

re-elected unopposed, and tomorrow he will receive the Queen's

approbation, in other words, her approval. Over in the Lords, peers

are swearing in. This is something MPs will do tomorrow, because they

haven't had to go through all this business of electing the Speaker. I,

Baroness Thatcher,... I swear by Almighty God

that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance

to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, her heirs and successors,

according to law. It only remains the tooth thanked my

to guests, Natasha Engels, former Deputy Speaker -- Natascha Engel. We

will be joining the assembly next for a debate on ministerial tax

policy, but please join us live tomorrow at 2:30pm for the speakers

approbation and the start of MPs taking the oath of allegiance for

the new parliament. That is where we will really get our first view of

some of the new MPs. But now, from Westminster, a very good afternoon.