GUERNSEY’S chief minister could soon be delivering an annual speech along the same lines as the US president’s State of the Union Address.

Deputy John Gollop (pictured) put the idea forward during question time yesterday.

He believed the speech could be a means of delivering a vision to all deputies that identified a sense of direction and the key aims and goals that the States wanted to achieve in the coming year.

Chief Minister Lyndon Trott told the House that he and the Policy Council agreed.

He said that some form of speech summing up the experience of the past and setting out a vision for the future was one of the defining characteristics of independent jurisdictions and nations.

‘By embracing such a tradition, Guernsey will provide yet a further sign to the international community that it is an independent jurisdiction able and willing to assert its identity.’