Sentences with phrase «coalition constitutional reform»

The problem relates to another contentious coalition constitutional reform - boundary changes.

Not exact matches

The deputy prime minister looked angry and tired as he announced to the press that the centrepieces of the coalition's constitutional reforms would die off due to a breakdown of relations among governing party MPs.

In the fourth of politics.co.uk's week - long series of features on the coalition government, we look at the frenzied pace of constitutional reform.

09:00 - Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg, before political and constitutional reform committee, on: the coalition government's programme of political and constitutional reform

Conservatives accept their opposition to Lords reform could cost them another of the coalition's constitutional changes - the reduction in the size of the Commons from 650 to 600 MPs and equalisation of constituency sizes.

The vote, which took place as the Commons debates Lords amendments to the electoral registration and administration bill, will deepen already intense bitterness on the government backbenches over the coalition's stalled constitutional reform agenda.

Chris Rennard: A setback on constitutional reform would be a blow to Lib Dems, but it was not the key aspect of the coalition agreement to voters

Douglas Carswell and Zac Goldsmith delivered withering assessments of the coalition's recall proposals, published in a white paper before Christmas, in an appearance before the Commons» political and constitutional reform committee this morning.

The Coalition Government formed in May 2010 proposed a series of further constitutional reforms in their coalition aCoalition Government formed in May 2010 proposed a series of further constitutional reforms in their coalition acoalition agreement.

It's a huge coalition, and it really illustrates the old cliche that politics makes strange bedfellows because you have the New York Civil Liberties Union, some reform groups, some environmental groups, and then you have the Conservative party, gun rights groups, they're all together on this, saying that they don't want a constitutional convention.

He examines the wide - ranging proposals for constitutional reform, which were in the coalition agreement.

Still, her card was marked - and she was quickly reshuffled into the dead end of the coalition's constitutional reforms in the autumn.

They're not popular and they'll make barely any difference - but are presumably being taken forward on the basis that there's not much else on the coalition's constitutional reform agenda.

Coalition parties feuding over constitutional reforms or public policy tinkering is one thing: being seen to be falling out over its international agenda is quite another.

A coalition of parliamentary and constitutional reform organisations has urged the government and MPs to implement the reforms before a general election.

Constitutional reform assumed a pivotal role in the coalition negotiations of 2010; and it was only when the Conservatives made key concessions regarding electoral reform that the prospect of a Conservative - Liberal Democrat coalition emerged.

That we see the reform of collective responsibility so that it is workable in coalition governments as an important constitutional reform.

The Coalition Agreement committed the present government to four major pieces of constitutional and electoral reform: a referendum on the AV voting system, the equalisation of constituency sizes, an elected House of Lords and five - year fixed - term Parliaments.

His disastrous announcement of expenses reform on YouTube showed that he can not build the coalitions of interest (inside his party, never mind beyond) that are necessary for constitutional change.

The coalition Lib - Lab government would either need to appoint new peers (who presumably would vote to abolish their new jobs in a combined Constitutional Reform Bill that would include an elected Senate), or use the Parliament Acts to override objections from Peers.

Lib - Lab coalition For all the differences that Labour and the Liberal Democrats might claim during debates and on the campaign trail, it seems probable that a deal to put AV + to a referendum as part of wider constitutional reform would be one of the first measures of a Lib - Lab coalition.

A few of course parroted the distortions the «No» campaign was built on or gave wanting to do in Nick Clegg as an excuse for voting against, but far more voted AV down because it had become too tied up with the politics of the Coalition and thus divorced from a wider and more genuine discussion of constitutional reform.

This book analyses the significance of coalition government for Britain and of the momentous constitutional reforms which the coalition is proposing.

Indeed, there are many aspects of the coalition government's programme of which we approve, notably its commitment to constitutional reform and enhanced civil liberties, and the willingness of the Work and Pensions Secretary, Iain Duncan Smith, to make poverty and dispossession a defining issue of our political discourse.

Given the concessions on electoral reform and fixed term parliaments that the Conservatives were forced to make as part of the Coalition Government, they are unlikely to allow themselves to be pushed into other constitutional reforms in the immediate future.

Ministers have repeatedly denied claims that the coalition's constitutional reforms are biased in their favour.