He also suggests the two sides could work
together on a constitutional reform package including party funding reform, more powers for Scottish parliament primary elections and even proportional representation.
This was despite such political upheavals as the UK's vote to leave the EU, Trump's victory in the US presidential election and the resignation of Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi following his inability to win his own
referendum on constitutional reform.
An inkling of the movement for constitutional reform at the practical level of electoral politics may be traced to the Joint Commission on the Constitution set up in 1981 by the Alliance, with the purpose to «examine the policies for reform of the British constitution, in particular of the electoral system... that our parties should present together at the next election for implementation» (Joint Liberal / SDP Alliance
Commission on Constitutional Reform 1983: 1).
In effect, this arrangement would codify the position as reported by the prime minister in his statement
on constitutional reform in July 2007 that the attorney general had decided that during the consultation process, she would not «make key prosecution decisions in individual criminal cases» (unless the law or national security required it).
My lack of enthusiasm about Labour was not in relation to working with the Blair
government on constitutional reform — indeed, I argue in the book that this process was extremely productive, and that Liberal Democrats sometimes need to work with the other parties.
Indeed the government's need to make the statement tomorrow forced Nick Clegg, the deputy prime minister, to bring forward his own
statement on constitutional reform to today.
Although speculating that the approaches from his main political rivals represented the «latest wheeze by Labour and the Tories to take the best of Lib Dem ideas and call them their own,» Mr Clegg said he was willing to work with other
parties on constitutional reform.
In an unheralded committee room at the House of Lords on Wednesday a group of politicians from across the political spectrum came together with the participants and organisers of two recent pilot Citizens»
Assemblies on constitutional reform.
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 Liberal Democrats aren't going to have anything to
show on constitutional reform, which is one of their biggest priorities — and we're not going to have a boundary change, which would have reduced the lead we need to form a majority government.
But if Clegg can't point to a
victory on constitutional reform by June, the chance for his party will be gone for considerably longer than that - and his backbenchers will only grow more and more restless.
Let's hope Speaker Bercow will soon call a
conference on constitutional reform, but hope he will propose a new semi-circular layout for the Commons with electronic voting on Bills as in Wales and Scotland and eventually a reduction in MP numbers to approx 400 Elwyn, Netherlands
While the Conservatives try to steal their green clothes, Gordon Brown is attempting to nick their
ideas on constitutional reform and just about everything else.
While this work has been going on, ministers and officials have been looking for the best basis on which to begin a
dialogue on constitutional reform between the federal government and the provincial governments.
Megan Davis, in her role as Director of the Indigenous Law Centre based in the Faculty of Law at the University of New South Wales, heads a research
project on constitutional reform and Indigenous peoples.
For example, the research project headed by Megan
Davis on constitutional reform and Indigenous peoples, highlighted above, is examining a range of reforms to the Constitution.
Many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples felt they had made their voices very clear not only at Uluru but also in the national consultations in the lead up to the Uluru national
summit on constitutional reform.
«You learn the way laws are made, how political influence works, relations between [governmental] groups, cultural questions,
work on constitutional reform,» he enumerated.
With municipal elections (including in Rome and Milan) in March and a
referendum on constitutional reforms that the prime minister has staked his political future on due for October, Renzi has to build a new momentum.
In 2007, then Prime Minister Gordon Brown stated, during a House of Commons
debate on constitutional reform, that he believed that the House of Commons should have more authority over the selection of «public officials whose role it is to protect the public's rights and interests, and for whom there is not currently independent scrutiny.
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.
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community were asked by the Government to give our
view on constitutional reform, it was given and after several months of «deliberation'the Turnbull government rejected the Uluru Statement and the modest and meaningful proposals within.
Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi vowed to resign after suffering a crushing defeat on Sunday in a referendum
on constitutional reform, tipping the euzo zone's third - largest economy into political turmoil.
Towards a new constitutional settlement: second report of the Joint Liberal / SDP Alliance Commission
on Constitutional Reform.
The outcome of Italy's referendum
on constitutional reform could have significant consequences for financial markets and the future of the EU.
Voters rejected Matteo Renzi's referendum
on constitutional reform, plunging Italy into political uncertainty.
Campaign group Unlock Democracy said they welcomed Mr Brown's «rhetoric»
on constitutional reform but it was no substitute for action.
On constitutional reform, he supports the Alternative Vote, if not full proportional representation, and is an instinctive pluralist.
It would be unwise to prematurely confine this debate
on constitutional reform to preambular recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.