Sentences with phrase «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 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.

«The hoped - for increased ability [of a mostly - elected upper House] to hold the executive to account will not happen, and may actually decline,» he said.

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 joint committee on House of Lords reform, made up of peers and MPs of all parties, has wrestled with how to ease out existing peers gradually — and in stages — as it moves towards an 80 % - elected upper house by 2025.

An elected upper house might endanger the supremacy of the Commons.

Wakeham, a former Conservative chief whip, was commissioned by Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair to shut down the dangerous notion of an elected upper house.

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

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

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

Nick Clegg will face a parliamentary committee today to lay out the case for an elected upper house.

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

It is not yet clear whether the coalition will back a wholly - 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.

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

Government plans for an elected upper house could lead to the British National Party (BNP) gaining its first seats in parliament, according the Viscount Astor, the stepfather of the prime minister's wife Samantha.

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.

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.