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Scottish National Party MP Kirsty Blackman criticised the “pomp” of Tuesday’s State Opening of Parliament amid the cost of living crisis.Appearing on the BBC to discuss King Charles III’s first delivery to parliament as monarch, Ms Blackman questioned if all the “sapphires and rubies” on display were the “right image that anybody wants to be to be seeing”.“People are sitting at home unable to pay their electricity bills and they’re sitting at home trying to work out how they are getting to the next week,” she said.“And then you see all of this pomp and ceremony, you hear about these sapphires and rubies, and it just feels so far removed from the daily lives and the daily struggles that so many people are going through.” More

Olivia Pratt-Korbel’s mother became emotional after discussing new laws to ensure criminals attend their sentencing hearings which were included in the King’s Speech on Tuesday (7 November).Thomas Cashman was jailed for life after he shot and killed Cheryl Korbel’s nine-year-old daughter at her home in Liverpool, on 22 August 2022.He refused to come up to the dock when he was sentenced.Ms Korbel told Good Morning Britain the “silence” is the hardest part of her life since her daughter was killed and praised the proposed law change as “a very important step forward.” More

Sir Lindsay Hoyle drew laughs from MPs as he shuffled past a front bench in the House of Commons during the State Opening of Parliament on Tuesday, 7 November.The Speaker of the House of Commons left his seat to follow Black Rod, who had summoned MPs from the Commons chamber to the House of Lords to hear the King’s Speech.MPs followed the officials to the Lords’ chamber behind Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer.This year’s King’s Speech was the first by King Charles III since he assumed the throne, and the first of Mr Sunak’s time as prime minister. More

Watch the full version of King Charles III’s first King’s Speech as monarch at the State Opening of Parliament on Tuesday, 7 November.The speech was written by the government to set out the legislative programme for the coming parliamentary session and read out by His Majesty in the House of Lords.Twenty bills and one draft bill were included in the speech, including measures to stop children turning 14 this year or younger from ever legally buying cigarettes or tobacco in England and a long-awaited ban on “no-fault” evictions in rental properties. More

Protesters booed as King Charles III and Queen Camilla travelled in the Diamond Jubilee State Coach following the State Opening of Parliament on Tuesday, 7 November.Anti-monarchy campaign group Republic said the demonstration in Westminster was staged “to protest for democracy and the right to elect our head of state.”Boos can be heard in footage broadcast on Sky News as protesters held up yellow signs saying “Not my King.”The group were also present at the King’s coronation in May – six group members were detained ahead of a pre-agreed protest, prompting criticism of the Metropolitan Police. More

Black Rod summoned MPs in the House of Commons to walk through to the House of Lords to hear the King’s Speech at the State Opening of Parliament on Tuesday, 7 November.The senior officer is one of the most well-known figures of the ceremony, in which the King read out a speech setting out the legislative programme for the new parliamentary session.At the State Opening of Parliament, the House of Commons door is slammed in Black Rod’s face to symbolise the Commons independence.Footage shows Sarah Clarke, who was appointed as Black Rod in 2017, entering the Commons after banging on the door. More

Foreign Secretary James Cleverly used a deepfake video of himself to illustrate the dangers of AI.“It has the potential to transform all our lives for the better, but there are risks” Cleverly said in the video posted on his social media platforms.This video was released as Britain hosted a global summit on artificial intelligence, inviting political leaders and tech bosses to try to agree on an approach to the fast-developing technology.Losing control of the technology is one of the biggest concerns about AI, technology secretary Michelle Donelan said at the summit. More

Elon Musk described artificial intelligence as a “magic genie” that “gives you any wishes you want” whilst warning people to “be careful what you wish for.”The billionaire tech entrepreneur was speaking to Rishi Sunak to close out the government’s AI safety summit on Thursday, 2 November.Mr Musk said AI presents a future challenge of how to “find meaning in life if you have a magic genie that can do everything you want” but could bring about “universal high income.””It will be somewhat of a leveller… I think everyone will have access to this magic genie,” he added. More