Theresa May’s considerably weakened government has announced the parliamentary programme for the next two years. Few commentators believe she will still be PM at the end of that period.

As expected, the core of the programme revolves around bills required because of our European divorce. So there will be a nuclear safeguards bill to “protect our world-leading nuclear industry during Brexit”, because we will be pulling out of the Euratom Treaty. The Queen’s speech also confirmed there would be bills on smart meters and on electric vehicle charging infrastructure.