Daily Briefing – Wednesday 13th May

Good morning and welcome to your Unbound Daily Briefing for Wednesday 13th May. News today will continue to be dominated by stories about support (or lack thereof) for the Prime Minister, but will also contain plenty about the King's Speech and the Starmer agenda for the next year.

• The Calls For The Prime Minister to Resign
• The Speculated Contents of The King's Speech

The King's Speech

At the time of writing, and despite reports of concern from Buckingham Palace, the King's Speech is still anticipated to go ahead as planned later today. Outside of the pomp and ceremony of this centuries old tradition, the core focus will be the 30+ bills that the current government intend to submit to Parliament for approval over the coming year. Central to the Speech and government direction will be the key Bill to transfer powers and money to the EU to complete the re-set. The PM sees this as crucial to his policy of economic growth, of defence with European allies, of youth opportunity, and net zero.

As part of our ever-expanding "Explainers" series, we have materials on:

1. More young people coming to UK to get hones and jobs
2. UK taxpayers paying over £800m a year for Erasmus+, to offer more help to EU students to come here, whilst cutting options for UK students
3. UK joining EU carbon trading putting up energy costs
4. Surrender of more fish for 12 years
5. Payments to EU to " play"
6. UK to accept many new laws and rules
7. Introduction of carbon tariffs on non-EU imports, and damage to UK Trade Agreements

Our writers expose how all this will lower growth, and are based on false claims about loss of GDP and trade from Brexit.

• Read our Explainer on the EU-Reset, the topics in discussion as part of it, and the implications
• Our resident economist and Executive Committee member, Julian Jessop, submitted evidence to the House of Lords Committee on the EU reset terms. You can read his submission in full here
• Our Advisory Council chair, Lord Redwood, also submitted evidence to the same House of Lords Committee. You can read his submission here