Sentences with phrase «hereditary peers elected»

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.

Not exact matches

(There's talk of a compromise of 120 elected peers by 2015 — or just electing enough Lords to replace the hereditary peers.)

Lord Grocott is going to have another go at ending the weird ritual of electing hereditary peers

A century after the People's Budget took on the hereditary peers, let us honour Lloyd George with a Great Reform Act, finally fully electing the Lords, alongside Commons reform, votes at 16, fixed election dates and, perhaps, full PR for local government, too.

In 1919, the German Bundesrat comprising of 69 indirectly elected representatives of Germany's 16 states, replaced appointed and hereditary peers of the Prussian House of Lords.

April 2005: Labour launches its election manifesto, which proposes a review of the powers of the House of Lords, with the last hereditary peers removed and MPs given a free vote on whether to elect some peers.

The white paper calls for 20 % of peers to be elected by the public and the axing of the 92 hereditary peers.

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.

Most of the hereditary peers left the Lords, although 42 places were reserved for those elected by their own party group.

In 1999 he one of the 92 elected hereditary peers to remain in the House of Lords pending completion of House of Lords reform.

The vast majority of hereditary peers have been kicked out and replaced with a group of Lords elected by and from among their own ranks.

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.

Bizarrely, the only peers who are elected are the hereditary peers who are elected by other peers to replace hereditary peers who die.

Under the Tory proposal to be put to Nick Clegg, the 92 hereditary peers would be replaced with elected peers.

Tony Blair, who expressed unease in early 2005 about a «hybrid» house with elected and appointed members, pledged in the Labour manifesto for that year's general election to remove the remaining hereditary peers and to «allow a free vote on the composition of the house».

1 Lord Monckton isn't a politician, he is a hereditary Peer of the Realm, and whilst he did act as an advisor to Margaret Thatcher he held / holds no elected office.

Elected hereditary Peers The right of hereditary Peers to sit and vote in the House of Lords was ended in 1999 by the House of Lords Act but 92 Members were elected internally to remain until the next stage of the Lords reform pElected hereditary Peers The right of hereditary Peers to sit and vote in the House of Lords was ended in 1999 by the House of Lords Act but 92 Members were elected internally to remain until the next stage of the Lords reform pelected internally to remain until the next stage of the Lords reform process.

In these votes the House of Commons voted to remove the remaining hereditary peers, as well as simultaneously voting for both the options of a wholly elected and an 80 % elected House.