Boris Johnson to announce new laws to ban train strikes, toughen prison sentences and stop landlords evicting their tenants this week The Prime Minister has drawn up an expanded Queen’s Speech which will present more legislation

Boris Johnson will announce new laws to ban train strikes, toughen prison sentences and stop landlords evicting their tenants when he sets out his policy agenda this week.

The Prime Minister has drawn up an expanded Queen’s Speech which will present more legislation than that announced in October. It will include a mix of policies designed to appeal to the right and laws which are meant to bolster Mr Johnson’s One Nation credentials.

The Queen will deliver the speech on Thursday, just over two months since the last one. No 10 officials said it would repeat all of the previously announced legislation, with a raft of new measures promised in the Conservative manifesto.

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Tough on trade unions

One new law will state that all convicted terrorists must serve at least 14 years in prison, a response to the London Bridge attack which was carried out by an extremist who was released from jail early. Another bans “all out” strikes on public transport so that trade unions cannot shut down a rail company’s entire operations.

In a bid to win over “generation rent”, the Government will promise to outlaw no-fault “section 21” evictions, which allow landlords to instruct their tenants to leave a property without having to have a cause. A fourth new bill would stop local authorities from boycotting individual companies, apparently aimed at banning the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign.

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The day after the Queen’s Speech MPs will vote on the first stage of the Withdrawal Agreement Bill which writes Mr Johnson’s Brexit deal into law. A No10 source said: “The PM has been very clear that we have a responsibility to deliver a better future for our country and that we must repay the public’s trust by getting Brexit done.

“That’s why the first piece of legislation new MPs will vote on will be the Withdrawal Agreement Bill. By getting Brexit done this One Nation Conservative Government will help this country move forward. We will invest in our National Health Service, in our schools, in creating safer streets, better hospitals and building a better Britain for everyone in this country, regardless of how they voted.”

The previous Queen’s Speech on 14 October was designed to set out a pre-election stall for the Tories with a relatively small number of bills. The new one aims to flesh out that agenda and to convince opponents of the party that Mr Johnson is not planning to take a hard right turn, as his critics claim.

The Prime Minister should have little trouble passing the proposed legislation, with a working majority of 87 in the House of Commons. But the House of Lords, where the Conservatives do not have a majority, could prove more difficult. There is a convention that peers do not oppose policies set out in a governing party’s manifesto, but they can still amend bills and delay legislation.