Sentences with phrase «elected mps»

They are the only currently - elected MPs to be listed as members.

There is nothing fair about redrawing boundaries with millions left out, and reducing the number of elected MPs while the unelected House of Lords continues to grow.

Taking out the anticipated 5 Sinn Fein seats (their elected MPs do not sit in the House of Commons), plus the Speaker, the magic figure for the slimmest of working majorities is 325 seats.

«Taking out the anticipated 5 Sinn Fein seats (their elected MPs do not sit in the House of Commons), the magic figure for the slimmest of majorities is 325 seats.»

Sovereignty was far too important an issue to be left in the hands of a few elected MPs.

No, elected MPs face more stringent sanctions, ranging from being «withdrawn» from the house for a day, to a period of suspension, to expulsion in the most extreme cases.

David Cameron last night won strong support from his newly elected MPs for his offer to the Liberal Democrats to form the first coalition since the second world war with a referendum on electoral reform.

These included funding for dinners for the panel of chairs, a group of MPs who help with Bercow's parliamentary duties, # 1,700 on a reception for retiring MPs, # 3,000 on an event for newly elected MPs, and # 2,000 on a «standing down» dinner for Dawn Primarolo, who served as deputy speaker and is now a peer.

Speaking on the BBC's Sunday Politics programme, Mr Shapps said the new format «looked a lot more sensible» as the original plans had «excluded democratically - elected MPs».

They are added to all the AV - elected MPs to bring the total seat distribution broadly in line with proportions of the popular vote.

While one could argue that the score of newly - elected MPs appointed to the front bench are likely to be slavishly loyal to Red Ed, he would be well to remember it was unemployed and underemployed Blairites that almost did for Gordon Brown.

That is an awful lot of unelected politicians, outnumbering elected MPs by three to one.

House of Commons register reveals 15 newly elected MPs have employed family members, despite public scepticism following expenses scandal

Most seats in the Commons would be filled with locally elected MPs, but the remainder would be allocated by proportional representation according to the number of votes cast for each party.

The numerical result of sharing out each party's votes amongst its elected MPs is the Parliamentary Vote Value (PVV).

«It would be ironic for democratically elected MPs to restrict their constituents» ability to exercise their legal and constitutional rights.

STV would have the advantage of retaining a stronger independence of locally elected MPs (due to preferential voting and the fact that party member can in theory compete against each other), but be a more dramatic move away from single - member representation, incur geographical difficulties mentioned earlier, and have a far less transparent counting process which is far less straightforward to understand.

The AV voting would be simply unnecessary, and the frustration much less acute, if those elected MPs returned by the electorate simply kept to those commitments and promises upon which they were elected.

Although it is not regarded as truly proportional by campaigners for electoral reform, AV is favoured by some because it maintains the constituency link, ensures elected MPs have the support of at least 50 per cent of voters and allows supporters of minority parties to express opinion through their first vote while giving their second preference to a mainstream party.

Stating that during Brexit talks it would be more important than ever to have elected MPs who were asking the right questions to ensure a good deal for Britain, Mr Blair added: «This requires the electorate in every constituency to know where the candidates stand; and the mobilisation of the thousands in each constituency to make it clear that for them this issue counts when it comes to their vote.

The Parliamentary Vote Value (PVV), which is used in the counting of parliamentary votes on party political issues, is the key to how DPR Voting balances the votes for the various parties with the number of elected MPs in the House of Commons.

This answer mentions some interesting points about elected MPs being unable to change the organization of the EU as a whole due to structural restrictions, but most of it is really just criticizing the eurosceptics themselves or euroscepticism as a concept.

Analysis by the Electoral Reform Society shows that 63 % of those who voted on May 7 did so for losing candidates, and that almost half of elected MPs won less than 50 % of their constituency vote.

Two newly - elected MPs who are being closely watched by Downing Street have taken opposite sides in the Brexit debate.

But according to a number of recently - elected MPs, the appetite for ambitious thinking is there if Number 10 wants to look for it.

«Democratically elected MPs, who for the past half century have relied upon this illusion of trust from the security services, can now be spied on legitimately by the security services.

After all, the Liberals» 2017 began with Trudeau dropping Maryam Monsef from Democratic Reform and into Status of Women, on the way to breaking his promise to change the way Canadians elect MPs.

We do elect MPs to represent their constituents after all...

I arrived unfashionably early at the Excel Centre for the results «as they happened» from around the UK on the referendum on how to elect MPs to Parliament.

First Past the Post (or «FPTP» for short)-- the current system in use in the UK since mediaeval times to elect MPs and since the late nineteenth century to choose local councillors.

If Labour had won, its referendum would have included questions on whether to elect MPs by the Alternative Vote (AV) system and whether to introduce a fully elected upper chamber in stages.

We need to move towards a means of electing our MPs where all voices are heard and where people don't feel forced to hold their nose at the ballot box.

Last week YouGov reported that 43 per cent said they would vote «to stick with first - past - the - post» and only 32 per cent would «switch to the Alternative Vote for electing MPs».

We have decided on balance that we should provide a single list for these elections, including those parties that won seats in 2009, and remind people that the system for electing members of the European Parliament is different from that for electing MPs to the House of Commons.

The arguments in favour of our current system for electing MPs are worth quickly rehashing.

The Acts were intended to reduce the number of MPs in the House of Commons from 650 to 600, change the way the UK is divided into parliamentary constituencies, introduce a referendum on changing the system used to elect MPs and take the power to dissolve Parliament away from the monarch.

During countless dinners with the Prime Minister at Chequers, in which he has lectured the Prime Minister on the wonders of Gladstonian Liberalism, Lord Jenkins has told Mr Blair that he will only achieve his ambition of realigning the centre if he abolishes Britain's first past the post system of electing MPs.

The commission, headed by Lord Plant, professor of politics at Southampton University, voted by 10 to 6 against keeping the present scheme for electing MPs - while, as predicted by the Independent, a narrower 9 - 7 majority decided it should be replaced with a «supplementary vote» (SV) system that would retain constituency links.

When this method is used to elect MPs to parliament, and thereby elect a Government, the number of MPs elected for each party is unlikely to be proportionate to the number of votes cast nationwide for the different parties.

«This autumn both David Cameron and Nick Clegg should ask their parties to approve a binding agreement to fight the 2015 general election as coalition partners... If the voters choose to keep our current system of electing MPs, as I fervently hope they will, the pact would give parliamentary candidates in constituencies in seats held by a coalition party a free run against other parties.

Voters will be asked if they want to «adopt the «alternative vote» system instead of the current «first past the post» system» for electing MPs in plans are outlined in the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill.

3.45 pm: Over at CentreRight.com Douglas Carswell MP argues that politics will only be restored with radical reform of parliament and accountability structures: «If we want a legislature with fewer vacuous soundbites and which actually holds the executive to account, we need to elect MPs willing to be more than cheerleaders.»

Our system is simple - we elect MPs to the house of commons.

Our first past the post (FPTP) system for electing MPs is designed for two - party politics.

The commission reported in September 1998 and suggested the alternative vote top - up or AV + system, which would directly elect some MPs by the alternative vote, with a number of additional members elected from top up lists similarly to mixed member proportional representation.

Well this «Referendum on the voting system used to elect MPs to the House of Commons» came about as a result of the bargaining carried out in anonymous back rooms, possibly no longer smoke filled due to Health and Safety, which resulted in the creation of the coalition which is now our government.

Not exact matches

Elected to the Commons in 2011 from the now - abolished riding of Calgary Centre - North, Rempel soon made her mark among her older and more experienced fellow MPs.

The key metric is that the Conservatives are a stunning 67 seats ahead of the Grits, who elected just 76 MPs.

The Progressive Conservatives elected 112 MPs and the Grits returned 105 in the first contest; the numbers were 116 and 100 respectively in the second.

The fifth is the 2006 federal general election, when Stephen Harper's Conservatives elected 124 MPs, and Paul Martin's Liberals had 103.