Sentences with phrase «mostly elected chamber»

44 % would prefer an mostly elected chamber, 32 % a mixed elected and appointed chamber, 11 % a chamber that was mostly appointed.

A slightly smaller number of voters (16 %) favour a mostly elected chamber with a small number of appointed members — the position adopted by the Tories in their 2010 general election manifesto.

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Lazy peers will be the first to be ousted from the House of Lords under highly controversial proposals to create a mostly elected second chamber, the Observer has been told.

A small number of voters (5 %) favour a mostly appointed chamber with a small number of elected members.

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.