'Radical' Queen's Speech promised

This week's Queen's Speech will see the most radical programme any government has put forward, Peter Hain has said.

The Commons leader told BBC One's Politics Show "everybody will be excited" by the legislation planned for the next year.

Measures to crack down on terrorism, illegal immigration and failed asylum seekers will be one of the centrepieces, he said, but they have already sparked controversy.

And another "big theme" of improving opportunities for everyone from babies to pensioners is also expected to spark opposition with plans for top-up tuition fees.

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Mr Hain said there would also be measures to improve quality of life and also "big picture" democratic reforms.

But, according to the Sunday Times, there is unlikely to be room in Tony Blair's programme for the next year for a Bill on hunting with dogs.

The paper says Downing Street might seek to soften the blow by backing a private members bill.

The set-piece occasion on Wednesday is when the head of state outlines the programme the government is hoping to push through the House of Commons and House of Lords over the next year.

Asylum seekers

There have already been heavy hints about most of the contents, but Sunday newspapers are full of tips and apparent details of which Bills will make it on the list and which will not.

Because there is a limited amount of time it is thought impractical for more than about 25 Bills could become law within one parliamentary year.

One confirmed measure in an Immigration and Asylum Bill will see failed asylum seekers being told to take a paid-for "voluntary" flight home or lose their benefits and see their children taken into care.

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Other measures thought likely to be included in such a Bill would be one which would see asylum seekers who deliberately destroy their ID or travel documents facing two years in prison.

Following the controversy over its foundation hospital health reforms in the session just ended Tony Blair is almost certain to face a huge battle over his education plans - notably any measure to pave the way for top-up university fees.

A civil partnership bill is expected to allow same sex couples to register their relationship and gain the same tax and inheritance rights as married couples.

Former Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey told BBC One's Breakfast with Frost he supported such civil arrangements as long as they were not called marriages.

Emergency powers

One of the government's headline grabbing measures will be Chancellor Gordon Brown's baby bonds giving every baby up to £500 to start a savings account it can access on its 18th birthday.

The democratic changes are thought likely to see a continuation of reform of the courts and justice system, with possible Bills to create a Supreme Court, to wind up the post of the Lord Chancellor and to create an independent commission to appoint judges.

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The Independent on Sunday reports that there will be a Civil Contingencies Bill giving sweeping powers to deal with terrorist attacks and other emergencies.

It says that once an emergency was declared by the Queen the government could order the destruction of property, order people to evacuate an area or ban them from travelling and "prohibit assemblies of specified kinds" and "other specified activities".

The draft Bill published earlier this year has faced criticism from human rights and civil liberty groups, and also on some points, by the Tories.