Sentences with phrase «new elected peers»
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As a McDonald's franchisee and chairman of the National Leadership Council, a group of franchise - owners elected by our peers, representing more than 2,400 McDonald's franchisees in the U.S., I can say with firsthand knowledge that the article «Coffee leaves»em jumpy; McDonald's owners fret cost of new drinks» (Business, Dec. 3) does not represent the truth regarding franchisee alignment with the company and support for our combined beverage business.
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• Nick Clegg has signalled that the government could accept a referendum on Lords reform after the first tranche of new peers have been elected in 2015.
[7][8] The new Parliament met on 18 May for the swearing - in of Peers in the House of Lords and newly elected and returning Members of Parliament in the House of Commons, and the election for the Speakership of the House of Commons.
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.
The coalition Lib - Lab government would either need to appoint new peers (who presumably would vote to abolish their new jobs in a combined Constitutional Reform Bill that would include an elected Senate), or use the Parliament Acts to override objections from Ppeers (who presumably would vote to abolish their new jobs in a combined Constitutional Reform Bill that would include an elected Senate), or use the Parliament Acts to override objections from PeersPeers.
With a moratorium on new life peers, 46 new directly elected «senators» would represent barely 6 % of the House, merely a quarter of the number appointed in this parliament and exactly half those there by accident of birth.
At least 52 sitting Labour members — one in seven of the parliamentary party elected in 2005 — have already formally solicited Downing Street to be included on any list of new peers to be appointed after Labour's expected defeat.