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Practice questionLife in the UK Test
What does the monarch do at the start of each new parliamentary session?
Correct answer
Opens it with a speech summarising the government's policies for the year ahead
Why
The monarch opens each new parliamentary session with a speech that sets out the government's plans. The speech is written by the government. The 2013 handbook calls it the Queen's Speech.
Answer choices
- AOpens it with a speech summarising the government's policies for the year ahead
- BChooses the new MPs
- CVotes on the first bill
- DAppoints the Speaker