Sentences with phrase «elected second chamber in»

Cameron defended the plan to include an elected second chamber in the Queen's speech despite the cacophony of calls from his own backbenchers to drop the bill: «I wouldn't for a moment say that this is the most important thing the government is doing.

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

Given the widespread perception that Corbyn and his allies were largely given a free hand to write the 2017 manifesto by the party as a whole, why did Corbyn not put a clear commitment to an elected second chamber in that manifesto?

It was Ed Miliband who made the Tory rebellion possible, by arguing he supported an elected second chamber in principle but making it impossible to achieve.

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.

Not exact matches

On the point about legitimacy: I think you are being very optimistic in assuming that the Commons will continue to be seen as properly superior to the second chamber when the latter is elected on the basis of PR and the Commons is elected on the basis of AV.

I believe that they also show that a second chamber elected in the way described above can broadly be seen to exhibit each of the desirable properties enumerated above.

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.

Second chambers are common in large, complex political systems; but their central purpose — to challenge the government and elected first chamber — makes them controversial.

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.

Gordon Brown should propose, in Labour's election manifesto, a referendum to introduce the Alternative Vote for Commons elections, alongside a second chamber which would be 80 per cent elected, by proportional representation.

The party said in its manifesto that «while we still see a strong case for introducing an elected element into our second chamber, this is not a priority in the next parliament».

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.

Reformed second chamber should be 80 per cent or 100 per cent elected Bishops should not retain reserved places in a 100 per cent elected House Link between a peerage and place in the second chamber should be broken Government should not hold a majority in the second chamber No changes to the powers of the second chamber and the House of Commons should retain its primacy

But in her central argument Symons said there was «an unbridgeable gap between an elected second chamber and maintaining the primacy of the Commons».

Tory MPs voiced their scepticism about an elected second chamber during yesterday's debate in the Commons

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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.

By 2017 Labour's policy had changed to a «belief» in an elected second chamber but a commitment only to stopping hereditary peerages and reducing the size of the House of Lords:

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.

A fully elected second chamber is Nick Clegg's baby — it would be his «moment in history».

In the campaign for the Labour leadership, David Milliband suggested holding a referendum on both changes to the electoral system and the introduction of an elected second chamber on the same day.

Unlock Democracy is releasing its poll to coincide with the publication of a report by a joint parliamentary committee which is expected to call for a second chamber in which 80 % of members would be elected.

4 February 2003: MPs fail to agree a final stage of Lords reform, voting to reject five options in turn, ranging from maintaining the status quo to establishing a fully elected second chamber.

Increase diversity in representative politics, with job - shares, a 50/50 Parliament, and replacing the House of Lords with an elected second chamber.

Tony Blair came into office in 1997 promising an early abolition of hereditary voting rights as part of a wider reform to move towards an elected second chamber.

16 July 2003: Responding to the report by the joint committee on Lords reform, the government says that there is no consensus in parliament for introducing any elected element into the second chamber, only for removing the remaining 92 hereditary peers and establishing a new independent appointments commission.

Given that Lords reform has stalled and an elected second chamber is simply not on the cards in the near future, it seems that we should be looking at how we can create, from what we have, a house that commands respect.

Better options lie in reform of the second chamber, so that directly elected English representatives can scrutinise, revise or reject English legislation.

A previous attempt to reform the Lords in 2003 failed when MPs failed to agree on how much of the second chamber should be elected and how much appointed.

Had we pressed ahead with our plans for a mostly or wholly elected Lords there would have been a second chamber election mid-way though this parliamentary term, giving us a chance to put a new Labour agenda to the public and — in the event of a win — prove to ourselves and to the country that we can be election winners again.

Mark Field MP wrote yesterday that the next Conservative Government should restrict the awarding of any future peerages to those taking up ministerial appointments - or at the very least to stop any retiring MP tainted by the expenses scandal from being ennobled - in advance of creating an elected second chamber.

Conservative sources were briefing over the past 24 hours that plans for Lords reform had been dropped after the prime minister concluded there was no way of getting an elected second chamber past his backbenchers in a form acceptable to his Liberal Democrat colleagues.