Sentences with phrase «of elected second chamber»

But Clegg confirmed that he and David Cameron were willing to use the Parliament Act to force through the reforms, adding it would be «incomprehensible» if peers chose to disrupt other Lords business, including other bills, to block the introduction of an elected second chamber.

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.

There does, however, now seem to be a consensus around moving towards some form of elected second chamber.

Caroline Lucas has led the way on this; her amendment to the programme motion suggested an extra three days of scrutiny on the composition of the elected second chamber, the primacy of the Commons and methods of accountability.

He's a longstanding opponent of an elected second chamber.

Not exact matches

On the point about legitimacy: I think you are being very optimistic in assuming that the Commons will continue to be seen as properly superior to the second chamber when the latter is elected on the basis of PR and the Commons is elected on the basis of AV.

I believe that they also show that a second chamber elected in the way described above can broadly be seen to exhibit each of the desirable properties enumerated above.

Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg announced his party's intention to block boundary changes, thought to be worth around 20 MPs to the Tory party at the next election, as a direct response to the failure of his plans to make the Lords reform a mainly elected second chamber.

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.

The first and second days would cover the relative merits of an 80 % elected chamber.

Deputy PM's speech advocating a mainly elected second chamber jeered by Tories and Labour on eve of crucial vote

Mayor of London pours scorn on coalition plans to replace House of Lords with 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.

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.

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.

A briefing paper prepared by the Cabinet Office asserts that the bill would not change the powers and functions of the Lords, but many MPs believe that any newly elected second chamber would inevitably increase in authority, so setting up a clash with the Commons.

A significant stage will come on Monday when a joint parliamentary committee will recommend that a second chamber should have 80 % of its members elected.

Yet the Coalition is preparing to replace that House with a new second chamber elected by means of regional party lists.

«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).

Reformed second chamber should be 80 per cent or 100 per cent elected Bishops should not retain reserved places in a 100 per cent elected House Link between a peerage and place in the second chamber should be broken Government should not hold a majority in the second chamber No changes to the powers of the second chamber and the House of Commons should retain its primacy

Former Conservative chancellor Mr Clarke told reporters he thought 90 % of the public wanted an elected second chamber.

Former Lord Chancellor Lord Irvine had once asked him whether there would be «enough people of calibre» to fill an elected second chamber.

But in her central argument Symons said there was «an unbridgeable gap between an elected second chamber and maintaining the primacy of the Commons».

But rebels rejected any amendments to the bill which fell short of removing Clegg's plans to elect a proportion of members of the reformed second chamber.

Continue reading «Felix Bungay: Radical constitutional reform should include an elected second chamber, a federal UK, a directly - elected Prime Minister and a separation of the executive from the legislature»»

Some want to damage the Lib Dems, others are wary of the pace of reform while others simply object to the idea of a mainly elected second chamber.

It argues that the current primacy of the Commons rests solely on the fact that the second chamber is not elected and is therefore less legitimate.

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.

Only after establishing that can anyone honestly decide how much legitimacy the second chamber should have: how large its elected element and how solid its array of powers.

The 2015 manifesto under Ed Miliband had a commitment to replacing the House of Lords with an elected second chamber:

I would want to see an elected second chamber that it is representative of all regions and nations of the United Kingdom.

By 2017 Labour's policy had changed to a «belief» in an elected second chamber but a commitment only to stopping hereditary peerages and reducing the size of the House of Lords:

Labour is committed to replacing the House of Lords with an elected Senate of the Nations and Regions, to represent every part of the United Kingdom, and to improve the democratic legitimacy of the second chamber.

He made the replacement of the House of Lords with an elected second chamber a policy commitment of his successful 2016 leadership campaign.

Party funding would be reformed, the House of Lords replaced with an elected second chamber and the prime minister would lose his power to choose the date of the general election.

That means changing the culture of politics and also the structures, like an elected second chamber, rather than focusing on changing the governing party.

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

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.

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.

An elected second chamber, a more proportional electoral system and that old chestnut, a Bill of Rights and Responsibilities, are all on the table.

4 February 2003: MPs fail to agree a final stage of Lords reform, voting to reject five options in turn, ranging from maintaining the status quo to establishing a fully elected second chamber.

Increase diversity in representative politics, with job - shares, a 50/50 Parliament, and replacing the House of Lords with an elected second chamber.

Tony Blair came into office in 1997 promising an early abolition of hereditary voting rights as part of a wider reform to move towards an elected second chamber.

Better options lie in reform of the second chamber, so that directly elected English representatives can scrutinise, revise or reject English legislation.

A previous attempt to reform the Lords in 2003 failed when MPs failed to agree on how much of the second chamber should be elected and how much appointed.

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.

Mark Field MP wrote yesterday that the next Conservative Government should restrict the awarding of any future peerages to those taking up ministerial appointments - or at the very least to stop any retiring MP tainted by the expenses scandal from being ennobled - in advance of creating an elected second chamber.