UNIONS welcomed Labour’s plans to begin rebuilding Britain after it set out its government agenda in the King’s Speech today, but warned its “financial straitjacket” must not prevent real change.

Among the policies King Charles announced in the House of Lords were the renationalisation of rail, lifting the ban onshore wind, ending tax breaks for private schools, the creation of a state-owned energy investment and generation company, and rolling out the New Deal for Working People.