LONDON – The British government plans to expand student loan programs to give all adults access to four years of university or job training throughout their lifetimes as part of a legislative program designed to help the U.K.
recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. The proposal will be part of the annual Queen’s Speech, in which the monarch reads out the government’s legislative priorities at the ceremonial opening of the new session of Parliament.
Tuesday’s speech will be Queen Elizabeth II’s first big public event since the death of her husband last month. “These new laws are the rocket fuel that we need to level up this country and ensure equal opportunities for all,” Prime Minister Boris Johnson said in a statement released ahead of the