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David Cameron will use the Queen's Speech today to push ahead with a British Bill of Rights in a bid to assert the "supremacy" of UK courts in the run up to the EU referendum.
The Government will today announce a consultation to be held after June's EU referendum aimed at giving British judges the final say on cases involving human rights.
It will recommend that Britain should remain a member of the European Convention of Human Rights in a move which is expected to provoke a split at the top of the Conservative government.
The Prime Minister will put plans to curb Islamist extremism at the heart of the Queen's Speech, including measures to ban organisations, gag individuals and close down premises that "promote hatred".
For the first time, sweeping new laws will ban hate speakers from working with children and other vulnerable groups, in the same way that paedophiles are vetted to stop them being given jobs in schools.
Theresa May, the Home Secretary, is also expected to launch an independent review of how Sharia courts are operating in Britain.
As part of the government's prison reform agenda, Mr Cameron will set out a legal framework for stronger governors and powers for “reform prisons” to take over nearby failing jails.
He is expected to reveal that prisoners will be able to serve "weekend jail" sentences under plans to to fit them with satellite tags which will monitor their movements at every minute of the day.
The first six semi-autonomous "reform prisons" will be announced as the Queen sets out the Government's parliamentary agenda for the next 12 months.
One of Europe's biggest jails, HMP Wandsworth, is among the half dozen institutions where governors will be given sweeping new powers over all key areas of management.
The Queen's Speech will also see the Government announce plans to give motorists who kill people similar sentences to murderers amid concerns they are getting off too lightly.
At present the maximum sentence for dangerous drivers who kill people is 14 years, and on average most people are only sentenced to four years in jail. The maximum sentence for homicide is life.
New rules will pave the way for Britain to become a world leader in the development of driverless cars on the roads; promoting the growth of unmanned civilian drone aircraft; and building a British “space port” to launch satellites and passenger “space planes”.
Radical changes to the care system are also expected to be unveiled, including new laws to encourage adoption.
A fresh attempt to limit the power of the House of Lords is set to be announced in the wake of the Strathclyde review, which recommended that peers should lose their powers of veto.
