Sentences with phrase «cent elected second chamber»

There could be a draft Lords reform Bill — Mr Straw favours an 80 per cent elected second chamber — but there wouldn't be time to push it through before the general election.

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Gordon Brown should propose, in Labour's election manifesto, a referendum to introduce the Alternative Vote for Commons elections, alongside a second chamber which would be 80 per cent elected, by proportional representation.

Reformed second chamber should be 80 per cent or 100 per cent elected Bishops should not retain reserved places in a 100 per cent elected House Link between a peerage and place in the second chamber should be broken Government should not hold a majority in the second chamber No changes to the powers of the second chamber and the House of Commons should retain its primacy