Alex Davies-Jones

Next time I use that quote, Chris, I'll just attribute it to you.

Yeah, with all the pomp and ceremony that goes with it, it's going to be completely bizarre.

And it was a bit bizarre, that parallel, just walking through Westminster today, because you'd walk along from the BBC offices towards Downing Street...

And it was all really calm and the fences were out ready for all of the processions and stuff that go along with the King's speech.

And the coppers were there and keeping the streets clear.

And it was this real sense of order.

And then you enter the gates of Downing Street and it was like all the journalists and the media frenzy and this kind of sense of chaos.

And I just thought, wow, isn't this interesting?

And I think tomorrow what we're going to see is the kind of public front of the ceremony and procedure and process.

But that doesn't mean what's happening behind the scenes is going to suddenly disappear.

It's worth saying just a couple of specifics that we certainly know a big focus is going to be on this notion of getting closer to the EU.

Expect that to be a central thrust of the King's speech.

Keir Starmer floated it in his big speech that he gave on Monday.

I think that will be in there.

And the other thing that we know won't be in there is a welfare bill.

Because, you know, lots of attempts to reform the welfare system.

The government obviously ran into trouble with its backbenches.

And Henry Zeffman discovered on Monday night that there's not going to be a welfare bill in the King's speech.

Because they say the reviews looking into how they might change the welfare system is still ongoing and they want to see that go through first.

I think that's one to look out for because I suspect some opposition parties who've made quite a lot of the need to cut welfare from their perspective might pick up on that.