Sentences with phrase «elected second chamber»

What the Conservative manifesto said is that the party made a commitment to «seek to build a consensus» for a mainly elected second chamber.

There does, however, now seem to be a consensus around moving towards some form of elected second chamber.

Britain should have a wholly elected second chamber in a radical departure from tradition, MPs voted last night.

Mayor of London pours scorn on coalition plans to replace House of Lords with elected second chamber

More distinctive is the reiteration of Plaid's long - standing support for the use of Single Transferable Vote (STV), an electoral system that it wants to see used for electing the second chamber as well as («when applicable») in all other elections.

The Lib Dems pledged to «replace the House of Lords with a fully elected second chamber with considerably fewer members than the current house».

The Labour leader said: «We had a very clear manifesto position, which was for a referendum, a 100 % wholly elected second chamber and proper codification of powers.

Most recently, attempts to introduce a largely elected second chamber in the legislature were [wisely, in my view] rebuffed by the House of Commons.

Yesterday saw the first day of a two - day debate in the House of Lords on the Government's recently published proposals for introducing a predominantly elected second chamber.

Every time the Commons proposes something that the PR - elected second chamber opposes, a large body of citizens will argue that the Commons is potentially overruling the «genuinely» democratic second chamber.

Deputy PM's speech advocating a mainly elected second chamber jeered by Tories and Labour on eve of crucial vote

Lazy peers will be the first to be ousted from the House of Lords under highly controversial proposals to create a mostly elected second chamber, the Observer has been told.

A briefing paper prepared by the Cabinet Office asserts that the bill would not change the powers and functions of the Lords, but many MPs believe that any newly elected second chamber would inevitably increase in authority, so setting up a clash with the Commons.

Further improvements to «transitional» appointed House; directly elected second chamber; federal second chamber to represent nations and regions

Simon Hughes, Lib Dem constitutional affairs spokesman, said: «It would be a serious setback to our democratic credentials as a country if the Commons does not vote this week for a wholly or predominately elected second chamber.

Objective — To make an effective elected second chamber, composed of mature experienced individuals with collective experience of all aspects of British life, whose principal task is to improve legislative bills during their passage through parliament into law, and whose secondary task is to scrutinize the actions of the government and act as a watchdog for the rights of the British people, should the Government or lower house appear to act in such a way as to undermine these rights.

The case for a democratically elected second chamber is unanswerable.

There could be a draft Lords reform Bill — Mr Straw favours an 80 per cent elected second chamber — but there wouldn't be time to push it through before the general election.

One of the fears of those who oppose having a substantially elected second chamber - especially if as proposed it uses a form of proportional representation - is that its members will feel that being elected gives it the authority to challenge the will of the Commons.

Like Cook, Clarke wants a fully elected second chamber of parliament, «and we need to get there as fast as possible.

Labour backs the switch to an 80 % elected second chamber in principle, but has effectively blocked the measure by opposing the government's timetable motion which would have secured its passage through the Commons.

The Conservative manifesto commitment in fact reads: «We will work to build a consensus on a mainly elected second chamber to replace the current House of Lords.»

The prime minister also proposed legislation to introduce a largely elected second chamber, but skirted around plans to make the attorney general independent of the government.

The party also pledges its continuing support for a wholly elected second chamber to replace the House of Lords.

Last year, when David Cameron failed to get his party behind the proposal for a predominantly elected second chamber, it certainly looked that way.

When they are forced to think about it, many find the idea of an elected second chamber a threat to their own sense of legitimacy, and primacy.»

He's a longstanding opponent of an elected second chamber.

Plans to replace the existing Lords with an 80 % elected second chamber had sparked a massive rebellion among Conservative MPs worried about the primacy of the Commons.

Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg announced his party's intention to block boundary changes, thought to be worth around 20 MPs to the Tory party at the next election, as a direct response to the failure of his plans to make the Lords reform a mainly elected second chamber.

The Lib Dem deputy leader threatened «consequences» if Tory rebels do not fall into line over the proposals to make the Lords an 80 % elected second chamber.

My concern is that we've done the first part but not the second part, and therefore - you mentioned an elected second chamber for example: I couldn't agree more.

There are other reports — one that Brown may go for an elected second chamber.

«As well as ending the hereditary principle for good we ultimately want to see an elected second chamber, but Theresa May has ducked giving a proper response.»

Just on constitutional reform, which continues to be a big interest for you: looking back at the sweep of New Labour in office under Blair and now Brown, hasn't it been a big failure really on what Roy Jenkins called «breaking the mould» issues: Lib - Labbery, elected second chamber - you must be disappointed with that record.

But the most contentious question is always whether an elected second chamber would have more powers, which would weaken the House of Commons

John Bercow says he would prefer an elected second chamber but does not believe «reform on any major scale» will happen soon

I think we need an elected second chamber, and we need to get there as fast as possible, and this recent kerfuffle just illustrates the reason for that.

I wrote about this in a Fabian Review essay in 2007, noting that Jenkins looks at the Commons in isolation, and arguing that combining AV (a more plural majoritarianism than FPTP) with the check of a legitimate, PR - elected second chamber, could achieve broadly similar goals behind Jenkins» AV + hybrid.

Some more rules of the game, detailing the appointment process for the unelected members of the mainly elected second chamber, would be covered in one single day.

Most democratic countries have an elected second chamber, if they have a second chamber at all.

16:54 — Now addressing Tory rebels, Young says that the Conservatives have been committed to an elected second chamber since the late 1990s, and says words to that effect have been included in the last three Tory party manifestos.

Caroline Lucas has led the way on this; her amendment to the programme motion suggested an extra three days of scrutiny on the composition of the elected second chamber, the primacy of the Commons and methods of accountability.

«On the floor of the Commons, Mark Pritchard accuses the Prime Minister and Conservative whips of bullying Main The Lords debates Lords Reform, Day Two: More Tory hostility to an elected second chamber»

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said he hoped plans for House of Lords reform would be revived in the next parliament as he formally confirmed the Government had abandoned its proposals for a mainly - elected second chamber.

Opponents of Lords reform, who are adamant they will defeat the programme motion, encompass traditionalists who can not bear the thought of tinkering with the constitution to romantics depicting themselves as true democrats who believe that a mainly elected second chamber will challenge the supremacy of their beloved House of Commons.

Clegg believes the referendum demand can be defeated by pointing out that all parties backed an elected second chamber in their manifesto, and few would like to set aside # 100m to fund such a referendum.

The collapse of coalition plans for an elected second chamber — with formal last rites likely to delivered next week by a rueful Nick Clegg — is triggering another bout of speculation about the survival of the coalition.

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