Sentences with phrase «elected chamber»

44 % would prefer an mostly elected chamber, 32 % a mixed elected and appointed chamber, 11 % a chamber that was mostly appointed.

«Moving with deliberate speed» is the best way of achieve «what most of us want» which is either a substantially or wholly elected chamber, he said.

Result — a directly elected chamber of 120 Senators, who would be broadly reflective of public opinion.

Citing his failure to pass reforms of the Lords to create a mainly elected chamber during his coalition government with the Liberal Democrats, he has decided not to introduce any new legislation.

b) Reform of the House of Lords: a fully elected chamber with peers elected on a different constituency basis and electoral cycle to MPs.

This week's Commons votes for a wholly or largely elected chamber injected a rare sense of excitement into the debate.

He pointed out that the House of Commons «is the largest directly elected chamber in the European Union».

Liberal Democrat constitutional affairs spokesman Simon Hughes welcomed the plans, saying they were a «serious effort» to complete Lords reform that actually began in 1911, although he said his party would be voting for a wholly or substantially elected chamber.

Meanwhile, the current rate at which electors are voting for minor parties can still have significant representational consequences for proportionally elected chambers such as the Senate.

Lords reform is also a low priority: «In terms of reform, having a more elected chamber, which is what I favour, to be frank is not an urgent priority.

The deputy prime minister published a plan last month to replace the Lords with a wholly — or 80 % — elected chamber of about 300 peers.

In May 2011, Clegg revealed plans to make the House of Lords a mainly elected chamber, limiting the number of peers to 300, 80 % of whom would be elected with a third of that 80 % being elected every 5 years by single transferable vote.

These are sincere votes of people who want a fully elected chamber, and who don't want to scupper 80 % on a best enemy the good principle.

Laziest members of House of Lords will be at front of queue for the chop under plans to move towards largely elected chamber

A slightly smaller number of voters (16 %) favour a mostly elected chamber with a small number of appointed members — the position adopted by the Tories in their 2010 general election manifesto.

The House of Commons endorsed a wholly elected chamber by a majority of 113 votes — it also voted for an 80 % elected house by 38 votes — and voted by 280 votes to remove the remaining hereditary peers.

Europe's directly elected chamber is a tangled web of conflicting interests.

This might make the 2020 and 2025 elections completing the transition to an elected chamber subject to a public vote.

If we are to have two elected chambers, then we should at least use the opportunity not just to remove Peers from the legislature but also to get rid of all Peers titles.

The Clegg proposals, like those of the Gordon Brown government in 2008, sought to replace the Lords with an 80 % elected chamber.

MPs feared an elected chamber would be less likely to defer to the Commons, resulting in US - style gridlock.

The first and second days would cover the relative merits of an 80 % elected chamber.

A part - elected chamber is a nonsense, neither one thing nor another.

All agreed it was time to replace the House of Lords with an elected chamber, but Corbyn also revealed he would like to go further than that by weakening some of the Queen's powers.

The government on Wednesday set out areas of agreement between it and the joint committee: a mainly elected chamber, elected members voted on a system of single transferable vote, staggered elections with one third coming up for renewal at a time, peers to serve 15 - year terms, current peers to leave in stages, a reduced number of peers, and powers to expel peers.

And while experience can be over-sold, it's a vital commodity in an elected chamber.

When the unreformed House of Lords attempted to amend the welfare reform and pensions bill last year, Alistair Darling referred to the interference as «a constitutional matter», saying: «The House of Lords has to accept that we are the elected chamber.»

• Jackie Ashley is right that «all proper democrats should back Lords reform» — but not via an elected chamber (How Lords reform became a game about fantasy politics, 9 July).

Clegg says there is nothing unusual about having two elected chambers in a bicameral system, with one having clear supremacy.

As I had suggested in my evidence to the joint committee, the proposal to elect members on a regional basis will remove the objection to an elected chamber being a challenge to the primacy of the Commons.

For advocates of an elected chamber, there is a point of principle — nothing wrong with that, far from it — but as such, neither side is likely to convince the other of the respective merits of their case — to agree to disagree is as far as we shall get.

The former minister called for a smaller, elected chamber, and also criticised the voting process on this matter.

Similarly, on House of Lords reform, the principles of a fully elected chamber have already been exhaustively debated and adopted by MPs.

Labour will oppose even an extended timetable if the bill does not propose a referendum, a 100 % elected chamber and greater clarity about the powers of the two houses.

And reformers have reason to be pessimistic: the promise of an elected chamber has been routinely denied by similar party - political deadlock for over a century.

Some Liberals — and liberals — argue for House of Lords reform as being more democratic and accountable, and that in a genuinely bicameral government, each elected chamber of Parliament would restrain the other.

Historically Lords reform has tended to be frustrated by the same unholy alliance of those who support an elected chamber but decide that the proposals aren't good enough and those who see the Lords as a future retirement home and London club rolled into one, far from the gaze of the electorate where one can munch on cucumber sandwiches and take high tea until ones heart is contented.

The likelihood of the coalition succeeding in its bid to reform parliament's upper House, by making it an either 80 % or 100 % elected chamber, continues to dwindle this autumn.

Finally, I suggested that with Lord Mandelson refusing to debate Ken Clarke on television, that it was time to change the Standing Orders of the House of Commons to allow Lord Mandelson to answer questions at the Despatch Box in the Commons and be held to account for his department's actions in the elected chamber.

Most recently, in 2011 - 12, the government proposed to retain a (proportionately greater) number of seats for Church of England Bishops in a smaller, partially appointed but mainly elected chamber.

Overall, people support the House of Lords being replaced by an elected chamber.

But more than this, reformers are left wondering whether the House of Lords will ever become a democratically legitimate body either by way of incremental changes or, as many of us would prefer, a «big bang» event which replaces the upper house with an elected chamber.

Meanwhile, the so - called senators will be highly unaccountable - elected to serve non-renewable 15 - year terms and unanswerable to the voters in the normal fashion of an elected chamber.

Whilst recognising the valuable role of the House of Lords in scrutinising Sis [statutory instruments], the Government remains concerned that there is no mechanism for the elected chamber to overturn a decision by the unelected chamber on SIs.

We want your views on whether the Lords should become a mainly or fully elected chamber.

It confirms that whether or not a Bill becomes an Act is ultimately a matter for Parliament rather than the government, although it is a matter over which the government has much influence given its control of the Parliamentary timetable and its majority in the elected chamber.

Transitional arrangements It is simply impractical to replace the present House of Lords with an elected chamber overnight and so provision will have to be made for transitional arrangements.

Primacy and powers One criticism typically levelled against the adoption of a wholly or largely elected chamber is that it would represent a threat to the primacy of the Commons.