Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May on Wednesday dropped key Tory manifesto pledges, including expanding grammar schools and revisiting the fox-hunting ban, as the Queen announced a pared-down legislative programme focused on delivering Brexit.
Peter Prior, chairman of Royal Borough-based pressure group Excellent Education for Everyone, said: "We have brought the bit of pressure we could bring to make sure [selective education] is not on the agenda for Maidenhead".
Legislation will also be introduced to modernise the courts system - something that successive governments have been attempting to do for sometime.
But although the Government's Queen's Speech documents has a lengthy section on schools, there is no mention of this policy.
According to Dickinson the two most important priorities for retailers and consumers would be trade and immigration regulations, both included in the speech.
May had hoped to officially secure support from the Democratic Union Party (DUP) of Northern Ireland, whose 10 seats in Parliament would give her enough votes to push her legislative agenda through. Trump's omission from the speech is significant because so much has been made of his planned state visit to the United Kingdom in the fall.
Parliament now has several days to debate and vote on the speech's proposals.
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The omission follows media reports that Trump no longer wants to come because of British public opposition to the visit.
Julian Sturdy, the Member of Parliament for York Outer, has welcomed today's Queen's Speech, which includes measures on fairer funding for schools, improvements to mental health services, and making a success of the UK's exit from the European Union.
The State Opening of Parliament, delayed by two days because of confusion caused by the inconclusive result of the British election, took place without some of the traditional ceremony, with the Queen arriving by vehicle rather than carriage and wearing a blue dress and hat rather than her robes and state crown.
She said: "Retailers will be encouraged that the Government is seeking to reach out to business". That was before May called the June 8 election that cost her Conservative Party its parliamentary majority and a fire in a London apartment block that killed dozens and led to anti-government protests on the streets.
The Lib Dems said their version would call for continued membership of the EU single market and customs union after Brexit.
The prime minister's flagship education policy since taking the keys to number 10 has proved divisive, not least in Kent where a number of non-selective head teachers wrote to Mrs May at the end of a year ago, outlining their opposition to the proposed expansion.
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