Sentences with phrase «further constitutional reforms»

The Coalition Government formed in May 2010 proposed a series of further constitutional reforms in their coalition agreement.

A Bill of Rights entrenched by an amending formula that «brings home» the constitution, and applied through Canada by our supreme constitutional tribunal, will open the door to further constitutional reform.

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However, the extension of bespoke, elite - controlled reform to England is likely to fuel constitutional instability across the UK state, further Anglicising the House of Commons (and by association the House of Lords) while also necessitating a further reordering of the UK civil service.

It is now clear to me — as it was not even a few years ago — that it is entirely possible to find proponents for almost any constitutional position but virtually impossible to locate any argument that has thus far succeeded in triggering principled reform.

Like the title of his recent book, My Scotland, Our Britain, and his post-referendum agenda for further devolution to Scotland and broader constitutional reform, Brown's vision has offered no place for or political recognition for England as a nation.

On 42 and 90 days, and on ID cards, where the balance was too far away from the rights of citizens... On top of this, we grew less and less comfortable with the constitutional reforms we ourselves had legislated for.

When 55 % voted No to Scottish independence in September 2014, David Cameron immediately linked further constitutional change in Scotland to reform in England.

Constitutional reform has so far redistributed power only between elites, not between elites and the people, says Vernon Bogdanor

Grayling will take on responsibility for the Government's constitutional reforms including the further devolution of powers to Scotland and legislation to give English MPs a veto over England - only laws at Westminster.

Mr Kennedy, who has made it clear he would continue to work with the government on constitutional reform, left the door open to further links «if the prime minister made a proposal» in areas such as health or education.

There will be further trouble ahead, too: analysis of our interview with constitutional reform minister Mark Harper showed that Lords reform looks as unlikely as ever.

In legislative terms, constitutional reform is necessary but very far from suffi cient to stem the decline in Labour support.

Rather, it argues that changes over recent years, starting perhaps with the fundamental shift in sovereignty inherent in accession to the European Union, but accelerating with the piecemeal reforms promoted by the Blair administration and promised, but so far not realised, by Gordon Brown, have moved us to a new constitutional settlement.

And yet, my research suggests that the attractiveness of Westminster norms have thus far discouraged constitutional entrepreneurialism and limited the supply of «supreme altruism» necessary to secure reform.

As Mr Brown pledges to move forwards with his plans for constitutional reform, first set out in July, the government published two further consultations today.

Talk of far - reaching constitutional reform will not get them going in the Dog and Duck, but the expenses crisis has triggered a genuine call for change.

It's been many years since I began campaigning for the House of Commons to have a say on whether we went to war or not, so I was delighted that the Cabinet Secretary in a so far unreported statement told the Political and Constitutional Reform Committee this week that he would examine the words needed to put the right of Parliament to be involved in the war - making process into the Cabinet Manual.

Tom Miers has written a pamphlet published today by Policy Exchange, The Devolution Distraction: How Scotland's constitutional obsession leads to bad government, which concludes that the not only has the Scottish Parliament not improved Scotland's economy or public services, but that further constitutional tinkering is a distraction from the real reform that is required north of the border.

A few of course parroted the distortions the «No» campaign was built on or gave wanting to do in Nick Clegg as an excuse for voting against, but far more voted AV down because it had become too tied up with the politics of the Coalition and thus divorced from a wider and more genuine discussion of constitutional reform.

The referendum was lost but at that point the Lib Dems could still point to House of Lords reform as a sign that their constitutional reforming zeal was far from being finished.

Arguing that constitutional reform is vital to restoring trust in politics, Brown says: «You might have thought that after three terms of a Labour government, we would be cautious about further reform.

The constitutional question is further complicated by the Court's 2014 decision in the Senate Reform Reference.

[172] This is an option for Australian constitutional reform that I believe warrants further consideration.

The Commission further recommended that the Australian Government should begin a process of constitutional reform to protect the principle of equality for all people in Australia, including: