Sentences with phrase «demand electoral reform»

Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg emerged from his meeting with ministers in central London to receive a petition and address the hundreds of protesters who had gathered outside demanding electoral reform.

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It gives the Conservatives, who are very anxious about demands for electoral reform, a sitting duck to shoot dead.

The Tories agreed to virtually all the Lib Dems» demands: fixed - term parliaments, scrapping ID cards, a referendum on electoral reform, measures to tackle climate change.

An extra # 2bn in education spending on Britain's most disadvantaged four - to six - year - olds will be a key Liberal Democrat demand in the event of a hung parliament, rather than their traditional call for electoral reform, Nick Clegg says.

One obvious demand is electoral reform, although differing opinions between parties on the precise preferred option suggests an arcane argument over which variant might dominate early negotiations.

But Carswell's speech highlights how demands for electoral reform, which were once the territory of the left, are now very much going to come from the right.

In the meantime if the election arithmetic means that Labour and the Lib Dems together have a majority of votes and more than 325 MPs, Brown may try to secure a deal with Nick Clegg — who would be expected to demand Brown's resignation and full electoral reform.

Unlike the UKIP demand for a federal UK based on Little England as a fortress outside the European Union, Greens and progressives should seize this historic moment to argue for a new constitutional and democratic compact, with electoral reform, including proportional representation for both houses of parliament, greater participatory democracy in the regions, and a written constitution with a citizens bill of rights.

Clegg looks set to emerge kingmaker, saying today that electoral reform - favouring proportional representation (PR) will be an «absolute pre-condition» of his post-election demands.

Similarly, the German court played an indirect role in the 1990s by legitimising reforms of the German electoral threshold and demanding a solution to the German problem of surplus seats in 2008.

A court can have a direct impact by demanding or triggering electoral reforms.