Sentences with phrase «referendum bill on»

Nick Clegg is to take personal charge of a massive programme of constitutional renewal, including a referendum bill on electoral reform passed by summer 2011, in what the prime minister, David Cameron, described yesterday as a Liberal - Conservative government that marks a «historic and seismic shift» in British politics.

«We will bring forward a Referendum Bill on electoral reform, which includes provision for the introduction of the Alternative Vote in the event of a positive result in the referendum, as well as for the creation of fewer and more equal sized constituencies.

The parties will bring forward a Referendum Bill on electoral reform, which includes provision for the introduction of the Alternative Vote in the event of a positive result in the referendum, as well as for the creation of fewer and more equal sized constituencies.

But as it happens they did win the election, and George Osborne is spending much of this parliament talking about his so - called fiscal charter, which has replaced the referendum bill on the Mickey Mouse shelf.

Any future referendum bill on any subject has to make sure that it is given those powers, otherwise you're guaranteed a dirty campaign.

Not exact matches

On June 30, the last day the old provincial sales tax remained in effect, a coalition fronted by former Social Credit premier Bill Vander Zalm presented a petition of 557,383 valid signatures to the province's chief electoral officer, which forces a bill abolishing the HST to be either voted on in the legislature or put to a referenduOn June 30, the last day the old provincial sales tax remained in effect, a coalition fronted by former Social Credit premier Bill Vander Zalm presented a petition of 557,383 valid signatures to the province's chief electoral officer, which forces a bill abolishing the HST to be either voted on in the legislature or put to a referenBill Vander Zalm presented a petition of 557,383 valid signatures to the province's chief electoral officer, which forces a bill abolishing the HST to be either voted on in the legislature or put to a referenbill abolishing the HST to be either voted on in the legislature or put to a referenduon in the legislature or put to a referendum.

Almost immediately after the vote, Catalonian President Carles Puigdemont signed into local law a bill to call the referendum on October 1, 2017, according to the BBC.

Pundits who throughout the summer had billed the elections as the first post-Webster «referendum on abortion» increasingly argued, as fall rolled around, that abortion had «faded» as a decisive issue for voters.

Wine in supermarkets bill advancing in House The House committee that killed last year's version of a bill to allow wine sales in Tennessee grocery stores on Tuesday overwhelmingly voted in favor of giving cities the ability to hold referendums on the proposal...

It's «a bill to make provision for the holding of a referendum in the United Kingdom on the United Kingdom's membership of the European Union».

As things stand Labour, which campaigned at the election on holding a referendum on AV, is not going to support the bill because of what it sees as gerrymandering.

James Wharton, who shot to fame when he tried to pilot the first EU referendum bill from the backbenches, lost his Stockton South seat and his job as an international development minister on 8 June.

Add the EU referendum bill into the mix, and suddenly it becomes one of judgement on policy, too.

In her speech in Glasgow, Sturgeon said publication of a referendum bill was designed to give Scots the opportunity to vote on independence before the UK departs from the EU.

To address the issue that citizens might not have time to vote, we could make the voting period weekly (i.e. every week there is a referendum online on various bills).

Labour should also introduce an amendment to the electoral reform referendum bill to change it from a referendum on AV to a referendum on STV.

Many of those backing eurosceptic John Baron's amendment to the Queen's Speech regretting the lack of an EU referendum bill believe the UK will not be able to secure any agreement from European leaders on a fresh set of terms for British membership - making Cameron's strategy of attempting to seek agreement unrealistic.

The Lib Dems called for a referendum on the final Brexit deal, which got unhelpfully billed as a «second» referendum.

On the flip - side, hundreds of independent media outlets were closed in the run - up to the introduction of the bill and the subsequent campaign for the referendum.

Fourth, Parliament held a national referendum on the bill in 2012 where the bill was accepted by 67 % of the voters and its individual key provisions were approved by 67 % to 83 % of the voters.

Fred Thiele (I - Sag Harbor) and State Sen. Kenneth LaValle (R - Port Jefferson) announced that the State Legislature passed a bill — which requires Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's signature — to require permissive referendums on accepting any federal or state financial assistance to the East Hampton Airport.

As a result he has put Labour and the Liberal Democrats on the spot - they now will have to say whether they do support the idea of a referendum on the European Union and Britain's membership of it when a bill comes back to Parliament.

For example, if Labour managed to get its act together, a big «if» I know, and they put an amendment to the voting reform bill designed to introduce AV + on to a referendum question rather than AV, how will the Liberal Democrats vote?

Morgan made her maiden speech in Parliament on 22 May 1997 in the debate on the Referendums (Scotland and Wales) Bill, designed to pave the way for devolution.

«He can drive his agenda and put his bill out there and make every Democrat in Congress who is running state their position on that bill and I would run this election as a referendum on guns because I believe the American people get it,» said Cuomo.

It culminated in a public consultation on a draft Referendum Bill which set out proposals for a referendum on extending the powers of the Scottish PReferendum Bill which set out proposals for a referendum on extending the powers of the Scottish Preferendum on extending the powers of the Scottish Parliament.

In the UK, the issue of Scottish independence has again become topical, as the Scottish National Party (SNP) have recently published a draft referendum bill (on the 20th of October 2016).

On the political front there will be the Bill paving the way for an EU referendum in 2017.

If we had the new constitution, actually the nation could stop a dangerous bill like this [article 65 gives the right for 10 % of the population to hold a binding national referendum on a law passed by the parliament].

Rebel Tory backbenchers fail in their attempt to impose thresholds on the AV Referendum - but 21 MPs back the bid before the bill clears the Commons

That's why, as MPs start the second reading of the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill on 6 September, I am tabling an amendment that would rewrite the referendum question to allow people to choose from a wider range of voting systems, including properly proportional options such as the additional member system (used in elections for the Scottish Parliament, Welsh Assembly and Greater London Assembly) and the single transferable vote (used in Northern Ireland).

The looming votes on James Wharton's Private Member's Bill for an EU referendum are likely to present the last opportunity ahead of the general election for MPs to put on record whether they support giving people a say on Britain's membership of the EU.

The localism Bill contains binding referendums on subjects such as whether to introduce mayors, the neighbourhood plans that I mentioned earlier and excessive increases in council tax.

It simply calls on the Government to agree that we should insert in the Bill that the result of the referendum will not pass if less than 40 % vote in it.

During last night's proceedings on the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill, Tory MP Bill Cash proposed an amendment that the AV referendum should be subject to a 40 % turnout threshold.

The book is billed by publisher William Collins as the inside story of how the referendum on the European Union brought about Brexit «and sank Britain's political class».

Like the EU referendum bill, or Theresa May's attacks on imaginary health tourists, or Iain Duncan Smith's insistence on the effectiveness of his welfare reforms, this is another example of post-reality governance: policy based not on the real world, but on an imaginary one of PR messaging in which the sole purpose is stay in power by finding lines of public opinion and putting the opposition on the wrong side of them.

In 2014, Council Member Lander sponsored a bill to call a referendum on the issue.

Finally the Electoral Commission have issued advice on the referendum question contained in the referendum bill currently before the Commons.

In Montana, Libertarian Mike Fellows is spending the day at the capitol on April 17, lobbying against SB 408, the bill that would put a referendum on a top - two open primary on the November 2014 ballot.

The Bill is designed, under certain circumstances, to give the British people, through a referendum, a say on our relationship with the European Union.

In his speech opening the debate on the Lords reform bill, he hinted that the election of the second and third tranche of elected peers, in 2020 and 2025, could be subject to a referendum.

But it would have to be designated as a «money bill» on the grounds that a referendum would have to be paid for out of public funds.

The bill received strong support in the Commons after most Labour and Liberal Democrat MPs, whose parties both oppose a referendum on the prime minister's timetable, declined to support the measure.

«Earlier on «Fox News Sunday,» Gibbs predicted that by this time next week the health - care bill will be «the law of the land,» and he welcomed the prospect that the 2010 midterm elections would be a referendum on health - care reform.»

David Cameron is to lay down a pre-election challenge to Labour and the Liberal Democrats over Europe by retabling a parliamentary bill this year to introduce a referendum on Britain's EU membership by 2017.

Peers rounded on Downing Street on the first day's debate in the House of Lords on a private member's bill that would pave the way for a referendum by 2017.

When asked specifically if Mr. Bellone was considering presiding officer Bill Lindsay's pitch to set a referendum on allowing the county to suspend its open space acquisition program, instead using funds slated for land preservation to balance the budget, Ms. Baird - Streeter said she couldn't comment directly.

Dobbs said: «I am delighted to be introducing this bill into the House of Lords to give the people of this country a say on Britain's future in a reformed Europe through an in - out referendum.

A frustrated anonymous WNY local official on the governor's budget demand that local governments hold referenda ostensibly designed to cut local tax bills: «Cuomo's plan doesn't cut (excrement).