Sentences with phrase «elected second house»

Nick Clegg should make clear that he still supports a fully elected second house rather than another Conservative - inspired compromise.

An elected second house would lead to a form of professional political class like the one we have in the Commons; a class susceptible to cronyism, corruption and stupidity in return for a cabinet post or a vote.

Not exact matches

Reeves said: «When I was elected to the House of Commons in 2010, I was amazed to find out that I was only the second woman MP for Leeds.

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

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.

House of lords reform - draft bill The purpose of the draft legislation is to take forward the vote of the House of Commons in March 2007 in favour of a wholly or substantially elected second Chamber.

Yet the Coalition is preparing to replace that House with a new second chamber elected by means of regional party lists.

«Yet the Coalition is preparing to replace that House with a new second chamber elected by means of regional party lists» Factually untrue, Tories hate closed list PR even more than Lib Dems do, the plan is, and always was, for elections to be run using STV (also known as the British Proportional System, as used for the Australian Senate).

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

The 2015 manifesto under Ed Miliband had a commitment to replacing the House of Lords with an elected second chamber:

The Speaker is a Member of the House and upon election to office becomes its principal officer.6 He or she is supported and assisted by the elected Deputy Speaker and Second Deputy Speaker who act as Speaker in the Speaker's absence and relieve in the Chair as Deputy Speaker whenever requested to do so.

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:

Labour is committed to replacing the House of Lords with an elected Senate of the Nations and Regions, to represent every part of the United Kingdom, and to improve the democratic legitimacy of the second chamber.

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

He made the replacement of the House of Lords with an elected second chamber a policy commitment of his successful 2016 leadership campaign.

Party funding would be reformed, the House of Lords replaced with an elected second chamber and the prime minister would lose his power to choose the date of the general election.

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.

We currently have one elected house rife with cronyism, dishonesty and second - rate corruption; do we want another?

As a joint parliamentary committee unveils its plans for a mainly elected second chamber, a YouGov poll commissioned by Unlock Democracy found that 69 % of voters support a reformed House of Lords.

First elected to the House of Commons in 1922 as the MP for Limehouse, Attlee rose quickly to become a junior minister in the first Labour minority government led by Ramsay MacDonald in 1924, and then joined the Cabinet during MacDonald's second ministry of 1929 — 31.

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

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.

Gillibrand was a hardworking lawyer (partner in David Boies» law firm); elected TWICE in a heavily Republican district; serves on the Armed Services Committee; ranks among the top ten fundraisers in the House; was hired by President Clinton to work at HUD; fought for the rights of abused women; is a genuine working Mom who gave birth to her second child just last March, making her only the sixth woman in the House to do so while serving in office; she has voted in every single election (unlike Kennedy who has missed even GENERAL elections); magna cum laude graduate of Dartmouth... Need I say more?

74 % said they supported fixed - term Parliaments, 73 % more free votes, 66 % that the number of MPs should be reduced, 56 % that MPs should not have second jobs and 51 % supported a fully elected House of Lords.

Responding to the government's references to the likely outcome of the Strathclyde review, Labour reaffirmed its commitment to replacing the House of Lords with an elected second chamber.

Jeremy Corbyn has signalled that Labour will go into the 2020 election calling for the House of Lords to be abolished and replaced with an elected second chamber.

Cuomo's office said Monday that instead of the typical annual address that brings both houses of the legislature and state elected officials together, Cuomo will deliver «regional» addresses during the second week of January.

At least five cabinet ministers have joined the Tory revolt over House of Lords reform, amid growing fears that proposals for a largely elected second chamber could destroy the coalition.

Jack Straw the secretary of state for justice and lord chancellor, announced the publication of the long - awaited government white paper on reform of the House of Lords (An Elected Second Chamber: Further Reform of the House of Lords, Cm 7438) on 14 July 2008.

To «re-invigorate our democracy» reform of the House of Lords would turn it into a wholly or mainly elected second chamber; there would be greater devolution of power to local communities; and greater opportunities would be created for holding public bodies accountable.