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Jennifer McKiernan For the third full day, party leaders will again be criss-crossing the country as part of a six-week election campaign that will culminate on 4 July.
Political reporter Today's Bank Holiday weekend will start with Rishi Sunak visiting the north-east after the prime minister completed a whistle-stop tour of the four home nations over the last two days.
A short ceremony, involving a lot of hats and a smattering of French, ended business in Parliament for this session on Friday night, ahead of the general election. Meanwhile, Labour leader Keir Starmer will be heading to the West Midlands to kick off the first weekend of campaigning where he is expected to focus on the cost-of-living crisis.
A Royal Commission, made up of five peers appointed by the King, take their places on the woolsack dressed in red ermine robes and black and two-pointed, bicorner hats. His shadow chancellor, Rachel Reeves, will be picking up this same topic when she meets with supermarket staff in London later this morning.
They send a small group of Lords officials down the Westminster corridors to instruct Black Rod to summon representatives from the Commons, made up of the Speaker of the Commons, alongside the deputy speakers, the Clerk of the House and the Serjeant at Arms.
When they arrive, there is a ceremonial greeting, where the Lords doff their black bicorn hats and the Commons representatives acknowledge this by bowing.
The Acts passed this parliamentary session are then read from a parchment and the Clerk of the Parliament turns to face MPs and indicates they have Royal Assent in French, which translates as "the King wishes it".
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