Sentences with phrase «reforms in parliament»

Further resistance to the reforms in parliament would be of serious concern to senior coalition figures, who had hoped the unprecedented reversals earlier this year had sufficiently addressed health workers» concerns.

Yet it is not the reforms in Parliament, necessary though they are, on which I would expect the new generation to have its main impact.

You want a comprehensive agreement — let's carry on negotiating — and in the meantime let us introduce these reforms in parliament by agreement between us and you.

The Deputy Prime Minister can deliver Lords reform in this Parliament with support across the House but not with the 15 year Senators» Bill

All this just underlines the key point: tonight's vote is absolutely critical to the prospects of Lords reform in this parliament.

[37][38] With the Conservative MP Nadine Dorries, he has been vocal in two defeated attempts to legislate for such a reform in Parliament.

Not exact matches

The idea for an ACCC investigation was hatched during media reform negotiations in parliament earlier this year, which resulted in a relaxation of ownership laws to allow the country's big players to boost their market share to better compete against online disruptors.

«Although we expect that the Greek government will implement the required measures, the risk of early elections is increasing given the rising political cost to the government and its slim majority in the parliament... Early elections might bring a new and more reform - minded conservative government, but Greece's economy would be hit again by prolonged uncertainty, after having just started to record positive growth,» Moody's said.

Hollande hopes to turn the euro zone's second - biggest economy around with reforms cutting corporate payroll charges and a bill currently in parliament that would open many professions up to more competition.

There are growing calls for electoral reform in Italy to prevent hung parliaments in the future.

If parliament gives its nod, Greek voters will be asked to rule on two complex draft documents that detail a proposal by the country's creditors to unlock aid of as much as 15.5 billion euros for Greece in return for sales - tax increases and pension reforms.

In reaction to the vote by the Legal Affairs Committee, Michael Izza, chief executive of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, pointed out that a number of the changes voted through by the members of the European Parliament seem to align the EU audit reform proposals more closely with international standards, which he considers a positivIn reaction to the vote by the Legal Affairs Committee, Michael Izza, chief executive of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, pointed out that a number of the changes voted through by the members of the European Parliament seem to align the EU audit reform proposals more closely with international standards, which he considers a positivin England and Wales, pointed out that a number of the changes voted through by the members of the European Parliament seem to align the EU audit reform proposals more closely with international standards, which he considers a positive.

ATHENS, Greece (AP)-- Greece's left - led government submitted to Parliament late Wednesday a new package of creditor - demanded tax hikes and reforms worth 1.8 billion euros ($ 2 billion), which it hopes to have approved by lawmakers in time for a meeting of European officials next week.

In May, the opposition Congress Party succeeded in delaying the GST reform measure in Parliament, forcing the review process to start agaiIn May, the opposition Congress Party succeeded in delaying the GST reform measure in Parliament, forcing the review process to start agaiin delaying the GST reform measure in Parliament, forcing the review process to start agaiin Parliament, forcing the review process to start again.

A daunting list, but shorter than it was two years ago and it would be shorter still if it were not for political obstructions to proposed reforms such as the GST in the upper house of parliament where Mr. Modi's government does not have a majority.

Italy's election next spring is likely to result in a hung parliament, further limiting the scope for reforms.

Thus the antecedent field of the Reform Bill passage is about two years long, or from the accession of the Duke of Wellington as prime minister in the Spring of 1828 (when the issue of Reform was first broached) to the first meeting of parliament after the elections of summer, 1830, when Reform became the focus of political conflict.

The passage of the Reform Bill may be defined in a shorthand way as the procedure of voting by Parliament, and approval by King William IV, of a law changing the qualifications for voting in British elections and redistributing seats in the House of Commons.

We can not say that «whenever Catholic Emancipation is followed by a revolution in France, the British Parliament will pass a Reform Bill.»

In this context we hope that the Parliament takes into account our concerns and are looking forward to continue a constructive debate on the CAP Reform with MEPs,» Kleibeuker concluded.

Electoral reform is a precondition of Lib Dem support in the event of a hung parliament, but David Cameron remains opposed to the idea, despite not ruling out a referendum.

«We have not been able to proceed on Lords reform, frankly, because there is opposition in parliament and the opportunism of the Labour party,» he said.

More recently, the Welfare Reform Act, which received Royal Assent in March 2012, attracted widespread criticism during its troubled passage through Parliament, with the changes relating to disability benefits being particularly controversial.

The process by which parliamentary candidates are chosen was also reformed so that trade unionists could be frozen out and replaced by young Blairites — people whose soft hands demonstrated the fact they had never worked in industry, or indeed anywhere except in think tanks or parliament.

LITRG led a number of organisations in briefing MPs and peers on self - employment matters during the passage of the Welfare Reform Bill through Parliament.

In doing so she became the youngest member of parliament since, at the very least, the Reform Act of 1832.

In a Downing Street web chat Mr Miliband said: «The new institutional reforms, which protect British sovereignty in vital areas of national interest should be passed or rejected by parliament»In a Downing Street web chat Mr Miliband said: «The new institutional reforms, which protect British sovereignty in vital areas of national interest should be passed or rejected by parliament»in vital areas of national interest should be passed or rejected by parliament».

The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) fully welcomes the recommendations set out by the Independent Commission on Banking (ICB) on reform of the banking sector, but believes that the recommendations should be in place before the end of this Parliament.

Its six points for parliamentary reform (universal male suffrage; no property qualification to become an MP; payment of MPs; equal sized constituencies; voting in secret; and annual parliaments) had first been proposed as a package in the 1770s by John Cartwright.

As time passed, support in the Icelandic Parliament for constitutional reform weakened.

Libertarian Estonian Reform Party with 33 seats of 101 member Riigikogu is largest party in parliament.

Successive British parliaments have also participated in a series of sweeping reforms to the procedures for how those European institutions make rules.

The full response of the Low Incomes Tax Reform Group to the call for evidence issued by the Finance Committee of the Scottish Parliament can be read in full, here.

One event which could well kick start a movement towards electoral reform would be a hung parliament resulting in a Labour Lib - Dem coalition.

If the Liberal Democrats can ensure that their party structures operate so as to allow a clear voice to come through, they have every chance of putting forward a distinctive manifesto at the next election - one that will, in all likelihood, put it closer to a reformed Labour Party, should the Alternative Vote deliver another hung parliament.

And having clearly defeated the Left, which is expected to retain only about 10 % of the seats in the lower chamber of Parliament, he can also expect little political opposition to his liberal - leaning reforms.

The agenda should include a referendum on a new voting system, a reduction in the number of MPs, thorough reform of the House of Lords, legislation for fixed - term parliaments, stronger civil liberties, an enhanced Freedom of Information Act, and extra powers for the Welsh and Scottish executives.

But read in context, I assume these would be issues about reform of the UK parliament and not about the content of, say, English devolution.

Such a thing has happened before in this parliament, on Europe and on Lords reform, and some of the Tories» most regular rebels are again on the sceptical wing over Syria.

Under what is called «AV plus» every constituency on the electoral map would need to be redrawn, making it difficult to hold a referendum and implement reform in one parliament (while straight AV would use the current constituencies).

And finally, a key institutional change that advanced Repeal was the 1832 Reform Act, which enfranchised the middle class, thereby enhancing the representation of free trade interests in Parliament.

Parliament's website describes it in detail, along with all the other major 20th century failed attempts to reform the Lords.

In 1969, for example, came one of the most serious attempts to reform parliament's second chamber.

Mr Salter, who entered parliament as part of Labour's landslide victory in 1997, said he wanted to be free to work with Labour back benchers to put forward «positive proposals» on education reform.

[1] More generally, the key voters are Labour supporters who are voting in the local / devolved parliament elections and who aren't interested in electoral reform.

Labour's 179 seat majority in parliament will not be taken by Tony Blair as a mandate for progressive social reform.

Harper voted against all the reform options in the last parliament when Jack Straw made a late attempt in the final years of the Labour government to burnish its reformist credentials.

All three leaders duly rewarded their donors on Thursday, prompting Lord Oakeshott, the Liberal Democrat peer and advocate of Lords reform, to condemn the list, saying it «polluted parliament and the political parties that collude in this corruption».

The European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party, for example, represents the interests of liberals in Europe while the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe is the predominant liberal group in the European Parliament.

Despite the perversities of the outcome, a real prospect of electoral reform will only come if the 2020 election again produces a hung parliament where minor parties may be in a position to press for reform.