After the Election Fallout, Is Britain Returning to Normalcy?

Both Prime Minister Theresa May and opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn spoke well in yesterday’s parliamentary debate on the Queen’s Speech — an occasion heavy with tradition and ceremony but dedicated in reality to the sober business of setting out the government’s legislative program for the next year. As every pundit has now pointed out, this Queen’s Speech is a stripped-down program from which most of the controversial items in May’s doomed election manifesto (her “dementia tax,” for instance) have been removed.