Sentences with phrase «current second chamber»
As part of the 2017 Audit of UK Democracy, Sonali Campion, Sean Kippin and the DA team examine how the UK's deeply controversial current second chamber, the House of Lords, matches up to the criteria for liberal democracies with bi-cameral legislatures.
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Therefore the Conservative Party needs to find a way out of the dilemma it faces over House of Lords reform, and push forward a system which reforms the second chamber but retains the merits of the current House of Lords.
It argues that the current primacy of the Commons rests solely on the fact that the second chamber is not elected and is therefore less legitimate.
Even die - hard enthusiasts for an appointed second chamber have to recognise the unsustainability of the current system.