UK’S Johnson returns to election pledges

LONDON, MAY 10 (REUTERS)- British Prime Minister Boris Johnson returned to his election pledges to tackle regional inequalities and maximise post-brexit freedoms on Tuesday, hoping to win back voters in southern England who abandoned his party in local polls last week.

In the traditional Queen’s Speech, read for the first time in 59 years by Prince Charles rather than Queen Elizabeth due to her mobility problems, Johnson said his Conservative government would “deliver on the promises we made” in the 2019 election.