Theresa May will need the DUP to back her legislative programme when it goes to a vote next week in order to stay in Number 10.
There will be bills to protect consumers by reducing motor insurance premiums, to boost transport infrastructure and turbocharge our space industry.
Talks have been going on since the Conservatives received a drubbing at the polls on June 8, after Mrs May's decision to call a snap general election spectacularly backfired.
A Conservative source said: "Talks are ongoing with the DUP and we continue to work towards a confidence and supply arrangement".
Talks between the DUP and the government "haven't proceeded in a way that DUP would have expected", sources have told Sky News.
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Mrs May said the Speech would be about "recognising and grasping the opportunities that lie ahead for the United Kingdom as we leave the European Union" and "delivering a Brexit deal that works for all parts of the UK while building a stronger, fairer country by strengthening our economy, tackling injustice and promoting opportunity and aspiration". It will do even more damage to the prime minister's standing both with the public and in her own party.
Downing Street issued its own statement, saying: "The Prime Minister has tonight spoken with the DUP to discuss finalising a confidence and supply deal when Parliament returns next week". Several of those ministers, who had been sidelined, are now asserting themselves such as foreign secretary Boris Johnson and chancellor Phillip Hammond.
In a mark of the importance of Brexit to Mrs May's agenda, the Queen will set out plans not for the usual one year, but for a two-year period taking the Government beyond the expected withdrawal date in March 2019.
The last time the Queen's Speech was similarly pared down was in 1974, when Harold Wilson defeated Ted Heath in another snap election created to give the Conservatives a larger mandate in Westminster. There will also be less pomp and ceremony than is traditional: The Queen will arrive from Buckingham Palace in a vehicle, instead of in a coach accompanied by cavalry, and she will wear a hat and dress instead of robes and a crown.
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