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Desperate Theresa May will announce a ban on letting agent fees in her slimmed down Queen's Speech.

The fees - which average £223 per tenancy - will be banned by law in a victory for the Mirror, which campaigned against them.

The Prime Minister has been forced to jettison huge chunks of the Tory manifesto , after failing to secure a majority in last month's election.

The Tories have been scrambling to secure a deal with the hardline Northern Irish DUP for almost two weeks.

But it was reported last night that the talks had stalled, and there would be no formal agreement before the Queen reads out the Tories' plan for the two year Parliament.

One policy that will make it into the speech is a ban on letting agent fees, revived from the 2016 Autumn Statement.

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Measures to "enforce" the ban on fees will be included in the speech, the government said, and there'll be a method for tenants to recover illegal fees.

But the Bill is only listed in "draft" form, meaning there's no guarantee it'll be a finished law by the end of the two-year period in 2019.

Another new law announced in the speech will establish a Domestic Violence and Abuse Commissioner whose roles will include monitoring agencies and "standing up for victims".

This law was promised in the Tory manifesto to "stamp out this evil crime".

As promised in the manifesto, it will create a legal definition of domestic abuse and give courts bigger sentencing powers if abuse involves a child.

Fox hunting, fracking, dementia tax and raids on free school lunches and pensioner benefits were all expected to be canned as Mrs May ate Humble Pie.

"The election result was not the one I hoped for," she admitted.

"This Government will respond with humility and resolve to the message the electorate sent."