Boris Johnson’s first Queen’s Speech as Prime Minister has been dismissed by the opposition as a pre-election stunt.

The “Queen’s Speech”, laying out the government’s legislative agenda for the coming parliamentary session, is, in fact, written by government ministers, in this case almost certainly Boris himself.

The Queen made the short trip to the Palace of Westminster from Buckingham Palace in the Diamond Jubilee State Coach accompanied by the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall. She then put on a robe and crown and read out a speech written out for her.

From all account, Her Majesty, whose decision to prorogue Parliament on a recommendation from her Prime Minister was declared “unlawful” by the supreme court, is not best pleased with Boris.

On Brexit, the Queen said: “My Government’s priority has always been to secure the United Kingdom’s departure from the European Union on 31 October.”

Ministers are preparing to rush through a bill to ratify any Brexit deal Boris is able to agree this week in Brussels in time for Britain to leave on schedule.

A raft of anti-crime bills dominated the state opening of Parliament, as well as proposed legislation on immigration and the environment.

The government used the set piece Westminster occasion to again insist making sure Brexit is achieved on the October 31 deadline is a priority.

Ahead of the speech, the pre-election atmosphere intensified as Chancellor Sajid Javid announced a budget on November 6 — just six days after the UK’s scheduled exit date from the EU.

Scottish National Party leader at Westminster, Ian Blackford, tweeted: “The Queen’s Speech was an election broadcast for the Tory Party more than anything else.

“A speech heavy on law & order from a Prime Minister willing to break the law.”

And TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady said: “This Queen’s Speech was a political stunt, not a serious set of commitments.”

Labour also branded the event “farcical” and a “stunt”.

In a heavily trailed package of 26 Bills, seven related to crime and justice.

These include legislation to keep serious criminals in prison for longer, impose tougher sentences on foreign offenders who return to the UK and provide better protection for victims of domestic abuse.

The Queen said: “New sentencing laws will see that the most serious offenders spend longer in custody to reflect better the severity of their crimes.”

A Sentencing Bill will change the automatic release point from halfway to two thirds for adult offenders serving sentences of four years or more for serious violence or sexual offences.

Other measures outlined in the speech include strengthening environmental protections, improving the NHS, ending free movement of labour from the EU and raising living standards through increasing the national living wage to £10.50 an hour.

On adult social care, the Government has pledged to “bring forward proposals” for reform, but the lack of a specific Bill dealing with the situation is likely to draw fire from the opposition.

Labour former leader Ed Miliband accused the Government of trying to restrict access to voting with proposals on the use of photo ID.

He tweeted: “Photo ID to vote without any evidence of a problem such an obvious US voter suppression move...plus in small print of briefing document making people re-apply for postal votes every three years....more bureaucracy to disenfranchise more people, particularly older voters.”

With no Commons majority, it is questionable how much of the proposed legislation in the Queen’s Speech ministers can get through

Parliament before a general election.

And there is a major question mark over whether MPs will pass the legislative programme, which will go to a vote after several days of debate.

The law and order package includes a Bill to “drastically” increase the sentences for foreign criminals who return to the UK in breach of a deportation order, a move ministers say will help disrupt the activities of international crime gangs.

Proposed legislation will make it easier for police to arrest internationally wanted fugitives who are the subject of an Interpol Red Notice without the need to apply for a UK arrest warrant, a process that can take a minimum of six to eight hours.

Initially it will only apply to those issued by a limited number of countries with trusted justice systems, the other members of the Five Eyes intelligence group, the US, Australia, Canada and New Zealand, and two non-EU European states, Switzerland and Liechtenstein.

However, the Government will be able to add other countries by statutory instrument.

The programme includes a “Helen’s Law” Bill, named after 22-year-old Helen McCourt who was murdered in 1988, to deny parole to murderers who withhold information about their victims.

The Government will also bring back the Domestic Abuse Bill which fell as a result of Boris’s unlawful suspension of Parliament last month.

Boris said in a statement: “People are rightly horrified by the spate of violent crime plaguing our streets, including the sickening rise in knife-related homicides.”

Other measures in the speech include:

- Environment Bill setting legally binding targets to reduce plastics, restore biodiversity, improve water quality and cut air pollution.

- Immigration and Social Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill to end freedom of movement and introduce a points-based immigration system from 2021.

- Railway reform with a white paper setting out proposals to overhaul the current system of franchising and creating a new commercial model.

- Action on building standards in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire with the establishment of a new regulator with powers to impose criminal sanctions for breaches of building regulations.

- The NHS Health Investigations Bill will create a new independent body with legal powers to ensure patient safety.

- Mental health reform to reduce the number of detentions under the Mental Health Act by ensuring more people get the treatment they need.

Boris is promising to ensure all tips are paid to waiting staff following an outcry that some major restaurant chains – such as Giraffe and Prezzo – were keeping as much as 10 per cent of tips paid by card.

The Employment (Allocation of Tips) Bill will put a legal obligation on restaurateurs to “pass on all trips, gratuities and services charges to workers without deductions’.

Meanwhile, ahead of the Queen’s Speech Boris received a winter flu jab.