Sentences with phrase «place in a parliamentary system»

To my mind, it betrays arrogance, reeks of hypocrisy and has no place in a parliamentary system.

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So, as Chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on First Past the Post (FPTP)-- the electoral system currently in place — I have been in touch with the Chief Executive of the Electoral Reform Society to challenge him to a public debate on electoral reform.

The chief place where parliamentary systems win out over the separately elected executive branch (at least in terms of preventing a government shutdown) is that the government (i.e. executive) is chosen by the legislative body.

Yesterday the middleman at the heart of the leak, former SAS officer John Wick, gave his first interview on his role in conveying MPs» expenses receipts to the Daily Telegraph, telling the paper he had acted to expose the «rotten core» of the parliamentary system adding: «Parliament will be a better place, society will be a better place.»

During the passage of the Parliamentary Voting Systems and Constituencies Bill, which, among other things, legislated for the referendum to take place, there was much controversy over the coalition government's decision to combine, in one Bill, both the referendum and the redrawing of Parliamentary constituencies.