Queen’s Speech – We Will Succeed Against Coronavirus (Full Text)

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I am speaking to you at what I know is an increasingly challenging time.

A
time of disruption in the life of our country: a disruption that has
brought grief to some, financial difficulties to many, and enormous
changes to the daily lives of us all.

I want to thank everyone on
the NHS frontline, as well as care workers and those carrying out
essential roles, who selflessly continue their day-to-day duties outside
the home in support of us all.

I am sure the nation will join me
in assuring you that what you do is appreciated and every hour of your
hard work brings us closer to a return to more normal times.

I
also want to thank those of you who are staying at home, thereby helping
to protect the vulnerable and sparing many families the pain already
felt by those who have lost loved ones.

Together we are tackling
this disease, and I want to reassure you that if we remain united and
resolute, then we will overcome it.

I hope in the years to come everyone will be able to take pride in how they responded to this challenge.

And those who come after us will say the Britons of this generation were as strong as any.

That the attributes of self-discipline, of quiet good-humoured resolve and of fellow-feeling still characterise this country.

The pride in who we are is not a part of our past, it defines our present and our future.

The
moments when the United Kingdom has come together to applaud its care
and essential workers will be remembered as an expression of our
national spirit; and its symbol will be the rainbows drawn by children.

Across
the Commonwealth and around the world, we have seen heart-warming
stories of people coming together to help others, be it through
delivering food parcels and medicines, checking on neighbours, or
converting businesses to help the relief effort.

And though
self-isolating may at times be hard, many people of all faiths, and of
none, are discovering that it presents an opportunity to slow down,
pause and reflect, in prayer or meditation.

It reminds me of the very first broadcast I made, in 1940, helped by my sister.

We,
as children, spoke from here at Windsor to children who had been
evacuated from their homes and sent away for their own safety.

Today,
once again, many will feel a painful sense of separation from their
loved ones. But now, as then, we know, deep down, that it is the right
thing to do.

While we have faced challenges before, this one is different.

This
time we join with all nations across the globe in a common endeavour,
using the great advances of science and our instinctive compassion to
heal.

We will succeed – and that success will belong to every one of us.

We
should take comfort that while we may have more still to endure, better
days will return: we will be with our friends again; we will be with
our families again; we will meet again.

But for now, I send my thanks and warmest good wishes to you all.


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