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Queen's Speech? The Euro flag is flying over Parliament Square

Today the Queen’s Speech will set out the legislative programme that the government intends to pursue over the coming Parliamentary session.

No doubt there will be lots of discussion about the various measures unveiled.

Will there be House of Lords reform?  Will flexible maternity leave really help mums and dads? Is the Bill to prevent the Chancellor committing yet more to Eurozone bailouts without a Commons vote just a meaningless gesture?

But as we listen to the Gracious Speech, we should reflect on the fact that most of the laws that will take effect over the next Parliamentary session won't be contained in any Queen's Speech.  They come instead from Brussels. They don't even tend to be debated and voted upon by those we elect to represent us. They are drawn up by unelected officials - and imposed.

Worse, a great many of the changes that ought to be in today's Queen's Speech - radical economic and trade liberalisation, immigration reform, real localism, VAT reform – which we desperately need to lift our country off its knees, would never be allowed while we remain subject to the Euro system.     

How apt that I should have spied this large Euro flag flying in Parliament Square on my way into work this morning.

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