Sentences with phrase «change in the voting system»
I doubt if either will be too disturbed by a relatively minor change in the voting system while Lib Dems support their ideological crusade.
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As a significant bonus Labour goes into the election calling for a change in the voting system.
Having failed to achieve a change in the voting system for the House of Commons — with the loss of last year's referendum on the alternative vote — Nick Clegg's party is determined to push ahead in order that his party can boast having forced a major constitutional change on the country as a result of being in government.
Clegg made it clear that tackling social mobility was so important that he would place his educational reforms above the Lib Dems» usual demand for a change in the voting system in the event of a hung parliament in which they would hold the balance of power.
But he said electoral reform would be a deal breaker — a» change in the voting system» was necessary.
The irony of Clegg's position is that his coalition deal makes a change in the voting system possible, but in highlighting the divide over economic policy makes reform a little less urgent than before.
Yet Nick Clegg has since admitted that no such offer of a change in the voting system without a referendum was ever formally made by Labour.
The 1867 change in the voting system was widely hailed at the time as a «leap in the dark» and a «conservative surrender».
Since 1997, with a change in the voting system, coalition politics has become the norm in the devolved parliamentary institutions in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
«That's one reason why we want a change in the voting system.
The Independent columnist and former Conservative MP Michael Brown has long been convinced that his party would benefit from a change in the voting system.
Step away from the current strange political situation and a change in the voting system is in Labour's own interests.
And it will also be the case on the basis of the prospectus that Alistair [Darling] and his team have laid out that we will have a change in the voting system without the British people having had a chance to vote on it on a referendum.»
The Lib Dems linked this to a change in the voting system.
Secondly, a change in the voting system that perpetually shuts one region (e.g., Western Canada) out of federal power will most certainly engender a constitutional crisis, and the most serious dissolution threat to Canada to date.