Sentences with phrase «elected upper house]»

Failure to reform the Lords, despite the Commons voting for a 100 % elected upper house, is just one of Labour's long list of missed opportunities.

A number of ministerial aides are reported to have indicated they would rather resign than support legislation for a largely - or wholly - elected upper chamber.

Speaking out against the bill the Earl of Caithness said axing hereditary peers would leave the Lords with an appointed system only and delay progress towards a democratically elected upper house.

The Tories gave ground by agreeing to hold a referendum on the alternative vote system and agreeing to speed up the creation of a wholly or mainly elected upper house.

David Cameron is not in favour of a referendum on reforms to the House of Lords, he has said ahead of the release of a report which is likely to call for a mainly elected upper chamber.

A charming and smooth operator, Strathclyde, 52, would not be so vulgar as to boast that he had personally succeeded in blocking an elected upper house.

The government must come forward with proposals for a properly accountable and fairly elected upper chamber.

A Labour source said Ms Bryan meant that she wanted to replace the Lords with an elected upper chamber.

Significant numbers of MPs from both the main parties believe that an elected upper House would undermine the Commons» monopoly of democratic legitimacy and, as in 2012, they will defy the Whips to block it.

Labour and the liberal democrats should promise to convert the lords into an elected upper house.

Given that the last parliament's MPs have already voted for both an 80 % elected upper House and a 100 % elected Lords, public opinion is likely to be on the side of the coalition government.

If it is to be the first, then an elected upper house is surely vital.

Tory ministers were unable to stave off a rebellion from their backbenches over Lib Dem - supported plans to create an 80 % elected upper House.

The coalition had pledged to bring forward proposals for a wholly or mainly elected upper House by December 2010, but has still not done so.

The prime minister is demanding that Tory MPs support the reform plans to shore up the coalition as Clegg has made clear that introducing a «wholly or mainly elected upper chamber» remains a vital element of the agreement between the two parties.

The letter was released as Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat deputy prime minister, prepared to appeal for unity over proposals for an 80 % - elected upper chamber as he opened a two - day debate on the bill on Monday afternoon.

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.

Toby Helm, Anne Perkins and Randeep Ramesh join Tom Clark to discuss plans for an elected upper house; Cameron's welfare speech; and another budget u-turn

Labour, said Blair in a 1996 lecture that has mysteriously disappeared from the Web, has always favoured an elected upper house.

The only promise there was to «establish a committee to bring forward proposals for a wholly or mainly elected upper chamber on the basis of proportional representation».

A committee will look into ways of creating a wholly or mainly elected upper chamber on the basis of proportional representation.

Not exact matches

He actively seeks out win - lose situations where he tries to gain the upper hand in a relationship or contract through cutthroat negotiation — a dynamic he promises to bring to Washington and the international stage if he was elected president.

Only a handful of Alberta's elected Senators have actually been appointed to the upper chamber, as the election process exists outside of the Constitution and can be ignored by the federal government.

If Romney is elected, watch many of the freedoms that we currently have get flushed down the toilet, more wars started, and devastation to our already fragile economy (excepting the upper 1 %, of course).

LaMarcus Aldridge: There is no way he's going to be elected as a starter, but Aldridge gets the nod for keeping the Spurs in the upper echelon while Kawhi Leonard was on the injury list.

More tentatively, an elected body replacing the House of Lords could have the important function of serving as a single upper house for all these various national and regional assemblies.

The upper house of the legislature is elected on an ethnic basis, similar to the presidency; each voter in the Federation can either vote for Croat or for Bosniak candidates, not for both; the Federation elects 10 members.

In 2001, Robert was elected to the City Council — and three times overwhelmingly re-elected by the voters of his upper Manhattan district.

Parties who gained a very small first preference vote look set to be elected to Victoria's upper house.

Though Mr. Rangel has backed away from retirement announcements before, most political observers in the upper Manhattan and Bronx - based 13th Congressional District anticipate that Mr. Rangel, who was first elected in 1970, will step aside.

We could avoid throwing away all that by adopting the proportional - representation party list system to elect a new upper house.

Former Liberal leaders makes strongest criticism yet of Nick Clegg's bid to make the upper chamber at least 80 % elected by 2025

Trump's nominee for Treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin, said that the president - elect's tax plan won't ultimately cut taxes for «the upper class,» which would be a major shift from the tax plan he proposed during the campaign.

He did not, as had been expected, go on to become chief whip; and, in 1999, when rehe form of the Lords began, failed by only 15 votes to be included among the 92 hereditary peers elected to continue in the interim half - reformed upper house.

Zephyr Teachout, who challenged Cuomo in the Democratic primary after the W.F.P. rejected her bid for the third party's nomination, said she never took seriously Cuomo's pledge to elect Democrats to the upper chamber.

The question of whether the upper house of the parliament should be abolished is gaining traction, with some people calling for a directly elected senate to address what they see as cronyism.

Mr Brown voted for an 80 % elected and 20 % appointed upper house

How come one Iyiola Omisore got elected into the upper chamber of the National Assembly from behind prison bars while standing trial for complicity in the murder of Uncle Bola Ige, the Cicero, then serving Federal Minister of Justice and Attorney General?

UPPER MANHATTAN — Northern Manhattan elected officials are sounding off after an off - duty police officer accused of raping a woman in Inwood last week said he's being targeted by the District Attorney's office so they can «make an example» out of him.

Lords reform is an issue above party politics.I propose an upper house, wholly elected, 100 strong, whose candidates for election must be aged 40 or older, and NOT previous members of the House of Commons.

But apparently wanting an upper chamber that isn't composed of elected party - hacks and career politicians makes you a «dinosaur».

These two guys should be publicly flogged and exiled to the deep woods of upper New York state, not elected to any public office.

UPPER MANHATTAN — Elected officials and residents plan to honor Dominican Heritage and African American History month at an event Friday evening.

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.

A parliamentary report on House of Lords reform recommended an upper house of 450 members serving for 15 - year non-renewable terms, with 80 % of members elected and 20 % nominated.

UPPER WEST SIDE — A controversial 400 - person homeless shelter that was supposed to move half its residents out by Saturday under a deal with elected officials will not meet its deadline — angering locals who have long fought to shutter the shelter.

The same day that Republicans gained control of the state Senate, Sen. - elect Michael Gianaris (D - Astoria) was pegged to restore the Democratic majority in the upper house in Albany even though he will only be a freshman.

UPPER WEST SIDE — The two City Council hopefuls vying for longtime Councilwoman Gale Brewer's Upper West Side seat — including the candidate aiming to be the city's first transgender elected official — have each raised more than $ 60,000 in donations a full year - and - a-half before the election.

In a move to shore up the position of the beleaguered Liberal Democrats, the cabinet will endorse the deputy prime minister's plans for the upper chamber to be overwhelmingly composed of elected members.

He resigned from RIKEN earlier this year and on 12 July was elected to the upper house of Japan's Diet.