Veteran Labour MP Dennis Skinner refused to attend the Queen's Speech today, muttering 'I'm not going' when MPs were asked to attend the House of Lords. How Dennis Skinner's heckling is a Queen's Speech fixture Dennis Skinner's remarks have become part of the pomp and circumstance of the State Opening of Parliament. And in 2006, as the film The Queen was released, Mr Skinner joked: 'Have you got Helen Mirren on standby?' In one of his earliest interventions about Her Majesty, Mr Skinner said in 1987: 'Tell her to sell up!' At the main event, a crime crackdown dominated the first Queen's Speech of Boris Johnson's premiership.

Source: Daily Mail October 14, 2019 11:11 UTC