King Charles III delivers first King’s Speech. Smoking, criminal sentencing and tackling consumer rip-offs. Rishi Sunak’s last-minute edit. King Charles’s body language observed. Our Politics team, Nicholas Cecil, Rachael Burford and Jitendra Joshi explain the highlights. In this episode:

• How will the King’s Speech be received by the public?
• The government's proposed leaseholds shake-up
• Criminal charges changing
• What happened to Suella Braverman’s proposed tent ban?

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