Queen-s-speech in a Sentence
  • He protests in favour of Lord Monteagle's motion for inquiry into the sliding scale of corn duties; of Lord Normanby's motion on the queen's speech in 1843, for inquiry into the state of Ireland (then wholly under military occupation); of Lord Radnor's bill to define the constitutional powers of the home secretary, when Sir James Graham opened Mazzini's letters.
  • There would be widespread dismay were the legislation not to feature in the next Queen's speech.
  • The accompanying note to the Queen's Speech referred to these officers freed " to concentrate on crime in England and Wales " .
  • New legislation to be outlined in the Queen's Speech will speed up payments to mothers in cases of disputed paternity.