Sentences with phrase «for electing the second chamber»

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

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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Senior Tory peers line up to sound sceptical notes about Nick Clegg's proposals for an 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.

«Iain Duncan Smith sets out and defends the Government's pensions legislation Main Senior Tory peers line up to sound sceptical notes about Nick Clegg's proposals for an elected second chamber»

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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».

Ed Miliband will broaden his drive for the devolution of political and economic power to the cities and regions, and away from London, by saying he wants an elected second chamber completely recast as representative of the cities, regions and nations of the UK.

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.

«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).

The manifesto also said the Tories would «work to build a consensus for a mainly elected second chamber» but 91 Tory MPs voted against a mainly elected Lords.

Conversely, it's likely easier for a left - wing party to rely on the Salisbury convention to push policies through the Lords than an elected second chamber where it may no longer apply.

The Commons will vote on a series of options for reforming the second chamber, ranging from wholly appointed to wholly elected.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The case for a democratically elected second chamber is unanswerable.

The Tories plan to do the right thing on civil liberties — scrapping ID cards, for example — and to do what Labour did not do on political reform: introduce an elected second chamber.

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

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.

A compromise would be to keep FPTP for the commons (and with it important direct local linkage between an MP and their constituency), but to have a much slimmed down second chamber that is 100 % elected at the same time as a general election but on PR and from party lists.

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.

For a few heady weeks this summer change seemed at least dimly possible, as people raged about reform of the electoral system, of the whip's office, 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.

At a national level reform measures could / should include an elected second chamber, a directly elected post of Prime Minister, and open primaries for all members of Parliament, giving the people the power to apply their own checks and balances to the system as well as allowing individuals to chose their Parliamentary representatives free of party machines.

Unfortunately for today's swelling ranks of constitutional reformers, this does not mean the Labour mood is finally hardening into a last - ditch resolve to create an elected second chamber before an expected Conservative election victory next year.

Brown is having to navigate between Lord Mandelson, the business secretary, who wants to retain 20 % of the places for appointed peers, and Jack Straw, the justice secretary, who favours a wholly 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.

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.

The Tories said they would «work to build a consensus for a mainly elected second chamber».

Composition The 2008 white paper puts forward only two options for the composition of a fully reformed second chamber: fully elected or 80 % elected.

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.