Of their policies. Despite all their promises, that is exactly what this queens speech shows. On the nhs in england, there was a committment that extra funding would be enshrined in law. And theres increased spending on thousands of schools in england. And promises of safer streets, with more Police Officers and tougher action against the most dangerous criminals. The debate on the speech has already started, well be taking a closer look at the range of measures being proposed and asking how realistic they are, so stay with us on bbc news at 5. Its 5pm, were live at westminster, where the queen has opened a new session of parliament, for the second time in the space of two months. But this time, there was less pageantry and far more politics, following the conservative victory in last weeks election. Some 30 bills were announced in the speech, billed as an Ambitious Programme of domestic reform, as well as delivering brexit. Indeed, the brexit legislation took centre stage, with the commitment to take the uk out of the European Union on the 31st of january. Seven of the 30 bills were brexit related. The nhs was also featured prominently, with guarantees on extra funding in england. And in education, thered be more cash for schools in england. There are also proposals for tougher sentencing laws for serious violent offenders, including terrorists. And the government says it wants to ensure that the whole of the uk can prosper, with plans for more infrastructure spending. But the notion of a conservative one nation approach has already been rejected by the Scottish National party. The first minister has called on the uk government to negotiate a transfer of powers to holyrood, to allow another referendum on independence. First this evening, our Political Correspondent nick eardley reports. Got a sense of deja vu . Its less than ten weeks since we last had a queens speech. This one is a bit different though. Scaled back, no golden carriage. No ceremonial dress for the queen. The biggest change is here in the house of commons. Black rod mr speaker, the queen commands this honourable house stop summoned mr speaker, the queen commands this honourable house. Summoned to the lords to hear the governments plan for the next year, led by a victorious Prime Minister, a small and weakened opposition. Look at the tension between them. Boris johnson can now make his promises reality and that means in a few weeks time, the uk will leave the eu. My governments priority is to deliver the united kingdoms departure from the European Union on the 31st of january. My ministers will bring forward legislation to ensure the united kingdoms exit on that date. And to make the most of the opportunities this brings for all the people of the uk. But he wants to persuade you theres more to his government, a detailed agenda beyond brexit. The top domestic priority is the Health Service, enshrining in law the promise to spend 3a billion extra a year. To spend £34 billion extra a year. My government will embark on an Ambitious Programme of domestic reform that delivers on the peoples priorities. For the first time, the National HealthServices Multi year funding settlement agreed earlier this year will be enshrined in law. There will be legislation to change the uks immigration system and improve broadband connectivity. And, after election promises, a pledge to change sentencing for serious crimes. New sentencing laws will ensure the most serious violent offenders, including terrorists, serve longer in custody. New laws will require schools, police, councils and Health Authorities to Work Together to prevent serious crime. Ministers say the programme shows they mean business. This five year ambitious plan, the £34 billion additional investment, is exactly what the nhs meets. Is is exactly what the nhs needs. This is a peoples queens speech. Opposition parties are still sceptical. We are deeply concerned about the headlines differentiating from the reality of peoples lives and that divide has got greater and greater over the last few years under this government. We are going to carry on being the real opposition as weve been over the last number of years and we will be focusing on protecting the nhs, focusing on ensuring the Social Security system is fair and actually catches people. The election may be over but the debate goes on. Borisjohnson promised during the campaign that a majority government would get the country moving again. His challenge now is to make that happen, notjust to deliver brexit but to fulfil those other key campaign pledges too, not least those made to people in the north who voted tory for the first time. A day of tradition in westminster but with a new government comes change and much of what happens around here will feel very different. The mps were making their way back into the house of commons ready for the traditional debate on the queens speech, which usually last for a few days, but it got off straightaway with Boris Johnson making the case for the programme and Jeremy Corbyn for labour. As we said earlier, it will be the last time, probably, thatJeremy Corbyn will be doing that, because there should be a new labour leader in place, certainly by much. With all of that in mind, letsjoin our chief Political Correspondent. Vicki young is inside the houses of parliament. For the conservatives, absolutely jubilant here in much larger numbers than many expected and much larger numbers than i have had for a very long time. So borisjohnson, able to look at that queens speech and know that this time, unlike a few weeks ago, he will be able to enact everything that is putting it. At the centre of it, that desire to deliver the Withdrawal Agreement bill and for the uk to leave the European Union at the end of january. Mrjohnson actually headed a golden age and it really feels as if he is planning, notjust forfive yea rs if he is planning, notjust forfive years in government, but maybe ten yea rs. Years in government, but maybe ten years. He said that he did not take for granted any years. He said that he did not take for gra nted a ny votes years. He said that he did not take for granted any votes that have been mounted to the conservative party and he feels that that queens speech will deliver four people in parts of the country that have not been represented by the conservatives for decades, sometimes not at all. This one nation government will enshrine in law record funding for our nhs, take back control of our borders with a wholly new immigration system, toughen our criminal Justice System with longer sentences for the most dangerous offenders, double investment in basic science research, and protect our environment with a bill so ambitious and so vast that there is no environmentally friendly way of printing it off. And mr speaker, this is not a programme for one year or one parliament it is a blueprint for the future of britain. In stark contrast, on the other side of the house, the despondency, the gloom written all over other labour mps and of the labour leader himself. There are many in his own party who, over the years, have not supported him or the direction he has tried to take the labour party in and today there was very little support, not much cheating from his own inside, but he had to battle through it not much cheering from his own side. That is what he had to say about the government. Its just two months ago that the Prime Minister made the queen come here in the rain as part of a pre election stunt. Since then, he has made many promises to many different parts of the country. His promise to address problems that are a result of his own partys actions in government and their Political Choice to impose austerity cuts on this country. There can no longer be any doubt that austerity has caused unnecessary suffering to millions of people all across this country. The communities to whom the Prime Minister made his promise will now judge him on whether he keeps them. It may not all be plain sailing for borisjohnson, one it may not all be plain sailing for Boris Johnson, one of it may not all be plain sailing for borisjohnson, one of the key issues he is going to have to deal with are the renewed calls for another independence referendum in scotland. The snp back here in very large numbers. This is what their westminster leader Ian Blackford had to say. This government thinks it can do what it wants to with scotland and get away with it. It will not happen on our watch. Hear, hear. The tories are risking our economy and reducing opportunities for citizens. Mr speaker, the choice is clear an outward looking country with a vision of tolerance, inclusiveness and prosperity for all, in contrast to this offering of a union run by a tory party who dont care about scotland. Borisjohnson Boris Johnson wants to borisjohnson wants to be seen to be getting on with things. Tomorrow the Withdrawal Agreement bill will come back to the house of commons for its second reading. It has been published and it really does tell the tale of how much less input, really, the parliament is going to happen all this process. There was room for parliament to have a say on whether the transition period, the implementation period, which runs to the end of next year could be extended, that power has been taken away. A sign that this parliament is not going to be like the one. Many thanks once again. The latest on the debate and the kind of point that have been made. With me is andrew bowie, vice chair of the conservative party. Thank you forjoining us. It is a big day, clearly. It felt as if a brand new government had come in, rather than a Prime Minister who has beenin rather than a Prime Minister who has been in powerfor the last rather than a Prime Minister who has been in power for the last several months. Absolutely. It is a very exciting day for many people it almost feels like the first day of the rest of our lives. We are finally shaking off the shackles of oui finally shaking off the shackles of our last parliament, the hung parliament, a minority government, trying desperately to get out of the mess that we were in and feeling at almost every time. Today we saw, with a large conservative majority, just exactly what we can do in the country. It was a very exciting day for many of us. When you return with a majority and you need lots of promises, you come up with a radical agenda which is packed with all kinds of things across a range of ages, you raise expectations. You raise voterss expectations to very high levels. The pressure for you to deliver is acute. Absolutely. The pressure is on but were determined to deliver. Were very clear that voters across the company across the country have not voted labour very long time have voted labour for a long time, it is ambitious and we intend to deliver. We have a majority in there and we intend to work through that and get those policies into law for the people of this country. It is difficult to find a group of experts on the Brexit Process in legal terms are political terms. I think most people think they are experts in there. There you go, how do you define expertise. But it is difficult to find people who, you know, take a rational view, think that the target of getting an agreement on our future relationship by the end of 2020 is a remotely realistic. Now, why is the government still insisting that this is possible . Because i think it is also absolutely realistic. We have the former Prime Minister theresa may reiterated today that she also believes it is achievable because so much of the groundwork has already been done. Were not starting from a standing start here, we practically wrote the bill book on how the European Union negotiate trade deals, so were going in there, having been a full member and contributor to firmer trade negotiations. I have absolute confidence that the spy minister, this government, will be able to deliver a trade agreement this Prime Minister will stop by the end of next year and on top of that we will be able to deliver a Security Agreement by the end of next year, so agreement by the end of next year, so it is very exciting, very demanding, very ambitious, a challenge, but were determined to do it. A question about the Health Service, some viewers today making this point that there is extra spending, it is welcome, youre simply making up for what you have have start the nhs of over the last nine years. That is what youre doing. So to try to claim credit for putting money in that you have already taken out is really a bit misleading. I dont accept that at all. We have increased the nhs budget in real terms every year since we came into office, pressing collection in 2010, then under theresa may and now under Boris Johnson. We have seen the largest cash base in the nhss history. I think it is a moment of celebration that were going to be investing so much new money into the Health Service, more than any government in history and i cannot wait to see the effect that is going to have on hospitals, gp surgeries across the country. You are a scot, is i want to put this question to you as a final point if any. This is about mandates, really, so clearly, you as a conservative government have a strong mandate with a majority of in the commons. Nicola sturgeons Scottish National party did very well. They will say, it was clear what we were selling, the prospect ofa what we were selling, the prospect of a second referendum on independence and we got a huge majority in the votes of scotland and we had a mandate. At some point, there is going to be a clash there. I was going to be resolved question i would dispute, first, the claim that the snp were going into that election claiming that a vote for the snp was a vote for a second independence referendum. Really . There was snp literature during that campaign is specifically said, but for us to stop brexit. A vote for us is not a vote for a second independence referendum. Even if it was, 45 of the Scottish Population is not an overwhelming mandate. We had a referendum, Nicola Sturgeon herself said it was once in a generation. She signed at the edinburgh agreement that said this was a good standard of referenda and should be respected and that referendum was only five years ago. We should respect that and move on for the good of the entire country. The letter has been sent and it is a formal letter, a former request, that has been sent to borisjohnson in the uk government today, but will it get short shrift . I cannot speak for the payments, but i would be inclined to think that he would unequivocally say no to any request by section 30 order and it is time to put to bed at the division of the last new decade in scotland and really move the country on. People voted for the Scottish National party for a whole variety of reasons, of course many voted for the snp because they wanted a second independence referendum, but that was not what the snp were offering at this election. It is time for the country to move on and i think youll some of the divisions divisions we have enjoyed over the latter huge few years. And you think rejecting that request is being a one nation conservative government questioning we are a one nation Party Standing up for all corners and all peoples and we are determined to level up, unite the country and by the country forward together. It is a busy day, thank you forjoining us. Thank you very much indeed. Andrew boy, conservative mp and vice chair of the party. Andrew bowie. The headlines on bbc news. The queen has opened a new session of parliament, brexit and the nhs are at the heart of the new governments legislative agenda. More than 30 bills have been announced, with seven covering the uks depature from the eu. A cash injection for the nhs is to be made law. There were also promises of safer streets with the recuitment of more Police Officers and tougher action on the most dangerous criminals. And in sport. Mikel arteta has said his goodbyes at Manchester City where hes assistant coach. Despite no official confirmation from city, arteta is expected to be announced as the arsenal manager tomorrow. Scotland rugby captain, greig laidlaw, has announced his retirement from International Rugby after nine years and 76 caps. And at the ipl auction, englands cup winning captain eoin morgan joined the calcuttas for more than half £1 million. 80 minutes past five here in westminster 18 minutes. As i was mentioning to the vice chair of the tory party on the scottish debate. In the last half hour, members of the Scottish Parliament have voted to create the Legal Framework for a second independence referendum. Scotlands first minister says more legislation would be needed before a referendum could be held. After the snp won 48 of the 59 seats in scotland at the general election, Nicola Sturgeon has now published a document laying out what she says is a detailed case for another referendum. Borisjohnson has repeatedly made clear his opposition to such a move. Our scotland correspondent lorn