Sentences with phrase «constitutional reform programme»

Brown, scrambling to assemble a more radical final year agenda, is in a race against time to revive his becalmed constitutional reform programme.

The plan was announced by leader of the House Sir George Young, who argued that the change in timetable better suits five - year fixed - term parliaments - part of the government's constitutional reform programme.

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

Discussing Lords reform and boundary changes, Foreign Office minister Jeremy Browne told Radio 4's Today programme «They're clearly part of the same constitutional package.»

This convention represented the first attempt by any Irish government to provide for a citizen - led programme of constitutional reform.

16:53 - Graham Allen, the chair of the constitutional reform select committee, pressures Khan to pledge to enter into talks with the government through the usual channels if the programme motion is defeated tomorrow night.

And the Today programme also heard from Mark Harper, the constitutional reform minister.

On 3 July, Brown announced a programme of constitutional reforms, including limits to the powers of the Prime Minister, extensions to the powers of Parliament, a consultation on a bill of rights and a possible lowering of the minimum voting age.

Nick Clegg is to take personal charge of a massive programme of constitutional renewal, including a referendum bill on electoral reform passed by summer 2011, in what the prime minister, David Cameron, described yesterday as a Liberal - Conservative government that marks a «historic and seismic shift» in British politics.

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.

The government's legislative programme will focus on economic growth and constitutional reform, according to this morning's Queen's Speech.

With these limits in mind, it should be noted that the draft legislative programme published by the government refers to 23 Bills on matters ranging from children in care to constitutional reform to unclaimed assets.

Defining itself against a bold programme of constitutional reform, the slogan «New Labour — New Britain», encapsulated a raft of measures redefining the constitutional settlement.

In its response to a recent Constitutional Affairs Select Committee report — Implementation of the Carter Review of Legal Aid, which attacked many of the proposals for reform and warned the government to slow down implementation — the government says it will stand firm on its reform programme.

It is the latest instalment in a programme of constitutional reform, which the government has been pursuing in a...