Sentences with phrase «referendum on av»

[4] This was confirmed in February 2011, when the referendum on AV (not AV +) was approved by Parliament.

So unsurprisingly the Coalition agreement contained a commitment to introduce a referendum on AV, a commitment to reduce the size of the House of Commons from 650 to 600 members and to equalise the size so that there were approximately 76,640 voters in each one.

The Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011 duly introduced the referendum on AV and also the aim of reducing the number of constituencies to 600.

Offer another referendum on AV — and allow their unreformed members to campaign with the Tories for a «No» vote?

It's worth keeping an eye on the progress of the NAME bill - the measure that paves the way for a referendum on AV and a reduction in the number of Commons seats.

(It was originally linked to granting a referendum on AV.)

And whilst it is welcome to have Liberal Democrat support on spending cuts and on certain civil liberties issues, and whilst we could well have compromised with the Liberal Democrats on a number of other issues, we didn't need a coalition and if a referendum on AV was the price of formal coalition we should never have agreed to it.

Given this didn't happen, and that neither the Tories nor Labour seemed willing to offer anything other than a referendum on AV, we are where we are and we need to make a choice between AV and FPTP.

Dean, many Labour MPs voted against the Bill that introduced the referendum on AV — that is breaking a commitment to holding one.

The Conservative Party does not believe in having a referendum on AV.

He's a bit unclear as to whether what happened was that the Lib Dems proposed the AV - without - referendum idea to Labour but was then rejected, or whether Gordon Brown offered this privately but then withdrew the offer well before the Conservatives made their counter-offer (a referendum on AV).

They weren't even offering a firm commitment to pull a three line whip on their existing manifesto commitment for a referendum on AV.

I suggested to Hague that the Conservatives were now merely matching Labour, who had been promising a referendum on AV since Gordon Brown's speech at the 2009 Labour conference, and included it in their 2010 manifesto.

The big issue is whether the Conservatives needed to offer Nick Clegg a referendum on the AV voting system.

Labour supported a referendum on AV at the election and is now opposed on the basis that the proposal is part of a wider package that includes changes to constituency boundaries.

Most tellingly, in May 2009, the Liberal Democrats launched a website called TakeBackPower.org which recognised the practical difficulties of forcing the UK to adopt STV, and instead committed the party to supporting a referendum on AV +, to take effect the next general election after May 2010.

Cameron prods Clegg towards a voting refendum Channel 4 News Political Editor Gary Gibbon writes: Just when you thought the bizarre role reversals of coalition couldn't go any further... I hear that, behind the scenes, David Cameron has found himself privately encouraging a nervous Nick Clegg that he really can win a referendum on AV in May 2011.

The added factor of needing a referendum on AV might slow the process a little, but would also likely see the Lords more readily accept the changes to the voting system (not wanting to defy the democratic will of the people).

A number of noble Lords have stayed up through the night, having already talked through nine days of scrutinising a bill that is being rushed through, on the pretext of needing an early referendum on AV, in spite of a complete absence of prior consultation, debate and discussion.

However the Conservatives insisted that the furthest they could go was to consider offering a free vote in the House of Commons on a referendum on AV.

In addition, Nick would tell Cameron that we were interested only in a full coalition, and only on the condition that Conservative MPs would back a referendum on AV.

The deputy prime minister will be keen to see at least some his cherished programme of political reform become a reality, particularly if the flagship referendum on AV results in a «no» vote.

That reduction is proportionately much greater for Nick Clegg's party and was only accepted by the junior coalition partners in return for the referendum on AV.

To win this battle of the referendum on AV, Conservatives should not be closed to some reform of First Past the Post.

The Coalition Agreement committed the present government to four major pieces of constitutional and electoral reform: a referendum on the AV voting system, the equalisation of constituency sizes, an elected House of Lords and five - year fixed - term Parliaments.

We get a referendum on AV, which is what Labour was going to deliver anyway.

The source said: «It has taken a long time to restore trust after the way Cameron behaved on the referendum on AV.

In his autumn conference speech Brown promised a referendum on AV, but at the last minute excised a commitment to pass a law setting a date for a referendum after the election.

* Crucial to keeping the Coalition together is the referendum on AV.

Mr Brown has already committed Labour to holding a referendum on AV early in the next parliament.

Why is there to be a referendum on AV - which wasn't part of all parties» manifestos - but no referendum on Britain's relationship with the EU - which had been?

Norman Baker, the Lib Dem MP, probably believes what he was briefed when he writes in the Sussex Express that «the clincher» against a Lib - Lab deal was «no abandonment of ID cards or the third runway at Heathrow and they were not prepared to agree to the Lib Dem pledge of lower taxes for poorer people and more crucially, no more than a referendum on AV».

It is a referendum on AV.

The party will be left reeling if it loses the referendum on AV, as one of its key compromises with the Conservatives falls to pieces.

The referendum on AV heated up significantly today as David Cameron and Ed Miliband launched simultaneous campaign events.

- Certainly my view is that Labour should offer and advocate legislation and a referendum on AV + and expect its MPs to back that as a confidence measure, and that the government and party leadership would advocate a yes (with a small number of rebels no doubt on the no side in the referendum itself).

For example they talk about far - reaching political reforms, but all they're offering is a referendum on AV, which would go nowhere near far enough.

They certainly secured the referendum on AV which they had demanded, but then the electorate overwhelmingly rejected the plan.

The record for reform looks a bit like this: Three devolved national assemblies, the London Assembly, rejected regional assemblies and a rejected referendum on the AV form of proportional representation: A mixed bag.

However, this policy of holding a referendum on AV appears to be designed to fail, as I pointed out in my blog four months ago when Gordon Brown first suggested it.

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.

There are also suspicions that David Cameron used the idea to buy off Tory concerns about a referendum on AV.

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.

Not exact matches

point that it is not only a matter of choosing to hold a referendum after the election that is disappointing, but choosing to hold it on AV.

Clegg claimed on Monday that Lords reform was the Tory offering in exchange for Liberal Democrat support over the constituency boundaries review, but Cameron is now insisting the actual deal was over the AV referendum.

2) Association with the Lib Dems — this was always going to make it into something of a referendum on Nick Clegg and makes it very hard to have a coherent Yes movement when Labour supporters of AV are furious at the Libs and they in turn are arrogantly insulting to Labour.

Then, when they realised that wasn't working, they decided to try to turn it into a referendum on the first past the post system, rather than AV.

Though Labour remained officially neutral, he in a personal capacity supported the ultimately unsuccessful «Yes to AV» campaign in the Alternative Vote referendum on 5 May 2011, saying that it would benefit Britain's «progressive majority».

The Yes to Fairer Votes campaign has announced the first appointments to the team that will lead the call for a «Yes» vote on the Alternative Vote (AV) in next year's referendum.

For all these reasons, I think AV is actually a very good voting system and I would put the referendum result down to several things — an ineffective Yes campaign (if you typed AV into Google, they didn't even come up on the first page of results), lies and smears spread by the No campaign, the association with Nick Clegg, the split in Labour over AV and finally, and not insignificantly, the fact that the Electoral Commission sent leaflets to every household containing an overly complex explanation that made AV look more complex than the insides of a nuclear reactor.