Sentences with phrase «over electoral reform»

Nick Clegg stoked up the Cabinet row over electoral reform by denouncing claims that switching to the alternative vote system would cost # 250m as «complete and utter fiction».

The debate over electoral reform has moved to centre stage in the election battle, after Home Secretary Alan Johnson claimed he was a long time supporter of PR.

There may also be difficulties ahead over electoral reform, with the Tories insisting that the number of MPs is reduced and the size of constituencies equalised — a move that could give the party an advantage at election time.

This will inevitably lead to a renewed debate over an electoral reform and a move toward a more proportional electoral system.

Clegg is thinking and must have been told to piss off by the Tories over electoral reform.

While Nick Clegg and David Cameron have managed to make their differences over electoral reform cordial, the energy secretary has repeatedly clashed with Baroness Warsi in public.

And the one that we thought was the really good narrative and had such an impact was the issue over electoral reform.

He chose Lib Dem self interest (being in government) over electoral reform — ie he chose FPTP over AV.

Not exact matches

«The electoral advantages of anti-immigrant politics will only shrink over time, suggesting that Republicans should at some point — perhaps before the next presidential election — begin to embrace comprehensive immigration reform,» says Mark Price, a labor economist at the Keystone Research Center, a nonpartisan economic policy think tank in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

The Every Voter Counts Alliance, bringing together over 60 organizations from across the country representing diverse groups, will be hosting a press conference on Parliament Hill later this morning just as the special parliamentary committee on electoral reform is set to begin its deliberations.

Even before the House of Commons can debate the options for electoral reform, it is arguing over how to choose.

I had to watch Prime Minister Trudeau's epic electoral reform meltdown from a distance over the past couple of weeks given my attendance at an international meeting of progressive policy leaders in South Africa.

The vote, which took place as the Commons debates Lords amendments to the electoral registration and administration bill, will deepen already intense bitterness on the government backbenches over the coalition's stalled constitutional reform agenda.

I can't help feeling that if Labour had made progress on electoral reform over its 13 years of government.

Labour is on the back foot over the issue of electoral and political reform.

Bluntly, your hope is that an issue that matters to you and to many educated middle - class people (but not to most Labour voters, who may well regard the idea in the same way as many Conservatives, as a way to give unfair influence to Liberal Democrats), electoral reform, is important enough to form an electoral alliance over, despite the fact this would leave many party members unable to vote (and who would get to stand in say Durham or Redcar anyway?).

From the «betrayal» of the Lib Dems over the Jeremy Hunt vote, when Clegg's party abstained and won the enmity of vast swathes of the Tory party, or the vicious tactics of the «no» campaign in the electoral reform referendum which disgusted Lib Dems and led to open rowing at Cabinet, the «calm and businesslike» relationship between the two parties has become a myth anywhere below the most senior levels.

He concluded that if his party and the Liberal Democrats could not form a sustainable working arrangement over two or three years, «then that kills the case off for electoral reform for good and all because we obviously can not handle a multi-party parliament».

One obvious demand is electoral reform, although differing opinions between parties on the precise preferred option suggests an arcane argument over which variant might dominate early negotiations.

Campaigners for electoral reform are being accused of airbrushing out a black poet from their literature, as the debate over the referendum becomes increasingly heated.

After the campaign that the Liberal Democrats have waged over this past month, for which considerable personal credit goes to Nick Clegg, the election presents the British people with a huge opportunity: the reform of the electoral system itself.

The Liberal Democrat dream of electoral reform is over for a generation.

No matter how bad the headlines are for the Tories on their obstruction over party funding reform, the electoral self - interest is too great to give in.

Many - giving parliament the power over Britain going to war, a largely - elected House of Lords, «no» to ID cards and support for reform of the electoral system - seem designed to woo the Liberal Democrats as possible coalition partners.

He added that over the last two electoral cycles, 2010 to 2015 and 2015 to 2019, the commission had deliberately and purposefully embarked on far - reaching reforms of the electoral system.

PR negotiations Drawn on the question of PR electoral reform and whether Labour would negotiate over PR with Nick Clegg in the event of a hung parliament, schools secretary Ed Balls dismissed it, claiming the Labour Party are aiming for an outright majority government.

Government corruption, electoral dysfunction, more investigations, broad popular anger over the political status quo and how it hurts regular people: As they return to the Capitol this week, you'd think it would be a really good time for lawmakers and Gov. Andrew Cuomo to move forward with big new reforms on ethics, elections, campaign finance and voting.

The question now is if the sustained electoral success we enjoyed over 13 years will go down as an aberration, an exceptional period in our history, or the opening chapter of a series of New Labour governments dedicated to economic competence and social justice, to the right balance between markets and the state, both reformed in the public interest.

What has happened on the electoral reform file in five of Canada's ten provinces over the past decade has already entered the post-election debate over the Liberals» reform package.

In the most recent election, the Reform Party of New York, through electoral fusion, fielded over 2,000 candidates for local offices, and supplied the margin of victory for over 300 candidates.

He continued: «over the last two electoral cycles (2010 -2015 and 2015 - 2019), the Commission has deliberately and purposefully embarked upon far - reaching reforms of the electoral system, in terms of changes in voting procedures and enhancing the security features of ballot papers, ballot boxes and result sheets.»

While he lauded accomplishments like marriage equality, he blasted Cuomo over the IDC and pointed to lack of progress on the Dream Act, electoral reforms and campaign finance reform.

He noted that the UN had, over the years, been providing critical support to the Commission in its effort to introduce and sustain reforms of the electoral system, through agencies such as the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

And a relatively clean way for the Liberals to abort an electoral reform agenda over which they lost control.

He suggested the prime minister had had a «belated conversion to the cause of electoral reform which he has so successfully and personally obstructed for over a decade».

The three «minor» parties committed to electoral reform — Liberal Democrats, Greens and UKIP — won over 7 million votes in the 2015 election.

There is majority support for electoral reform among all age groups, although 18 - 24 year - olds (68 per cent) are more likely to back change than those 65 and over (52 per cent).

Clegg reportedly chose to prioritise Lords reform over scrapping the unpopular NHS reforms when he met with Cameron after May 2011's electoral reform referendum defeat, the Times reported.

The lack of clarity here over the role of provincial consent has led Pal to concludes that its possible that only the general amending formula can be used for electoral reform, and the matter should be referred to the Court on this issue specifically.