Sentences with phrase «second chamber»

There does, however, now seem to be a consensus around moving towards some form of elected second chamber.

This catalogue of failure exposes the complexities of second chamber reform.

Second, learn from experience what makes second chambers powerful.

Even those who argue for the merits of an appointed second chamber agree that this is far from ideal.

Should we just do away with the entire second chamber?

In fact, the government welcomes a more assertive second chamber «as further enhancing our democracy».

My concern is that we've done the first part but not the second part, and therefore - you mentioned an elected second chamber for example: I couldn't agree more.

It is also the only second chamber to be bigger than the first one.

The campaign, «Holy Redundant», follows on from the Joint Parliamentary Committee on the Draft House of Lords Reform Bill reporting on Monday in support of the Government's proposals to keep reserved seats for Bishops in a reformed second chamber by a vote of 13 - 7.

Tory MPs Conor Burns and Eleanor Laing among most vocal opponents of Nick Clegg's plans for second chamber

The original said that only the UK and Lesotho had a wholly unelected second chamber.

In the campaign for the Labour leadership, David Milliband suggested holding a referendum on both changes to the electoral system and the introduction of an elected second chamber on the same day.

And then unlike the last election we will ask for a clear mandate to make the House of Lords an accountable and democratic second chamber for the very first time.

«Yet the Coalition is preparing to replace that House with a new second chamber elected by means of regional party lists» Factually untrue, Tories hate closed list PR even more than Lib Dems do, the plan is, and always was, for elections to be run using STV (also known as the British Proportional System, as used for the Australian Senate).

The House of Lords currently has 789 Members which makes it the largest second chamber in the world.

16:54 — Now addressing Tory rebels, Young says that the Conservatives have been committed to an elected second chamber since the late 1990s, and says words to that effect have been included in the last three Tory party manifestos.

Unfortunately for today's swelling ranks of constitutional reformers, this does not mean the Labour mood is finally hardening into a last - ditch resolve to create an elected second chamber before an expected Conservative election victory next year.

(Give me benevolent dictator powers, and I might go for an AV / AMS 50 - 50 hybrid rather than AV + or AMS, though I would see straight AV, with PR second chamber and STV in local government as a very good advance in the real world; and think there is a coherent case).

Tory MPs voiced their scepticism about an elected second chamber during yesterday's debate in the Commons

Over the next few weeks Nick Clegg's dream of a reformed second chamber faces its first major test.

Would it not make more sense to take this opportunity to sort out our anachronistic and undemocratic second chamber for good?

But the case around «elective dictatorship» set out by Lord Halisham in 1976 is rather different if one introduces measures like devolution, an entrenched bill of rights, a legitimate second chamber with revising powers, stronger and legitimate local government.

Ministers are attempting to complete the reform of parliament's second chamber begun over 100 years ago.

He was a noted speaker on banking and on reform of the House of Lords about which he wrote several books including Second Chambers in Theory and Practice (1923).

If Mr Seymour really values the contribution of a strong second chamber, he must not yield to the notion that «expertise» should trump election and notional «independence» should necessarily be valued over real accountability.

Deputy PM's speech advocating a mainly elected second chamber jeered by Tories and Labour on eve of crucial vote

The bill, setting out plans for a 450 - strong, part - time second chamber named the Senate, will be published on Wednesday with the deputy prime minister, heartened by clear support for the proposals at a cabinet meetingon Tuesday, prompting him to tell aides: «It really is game on.»

Despite all the pledges to «modernise» Britain, our democracy was still going to contain an outdated and illogical second chamber.

Ed Miliband will broaden his drive for the devolution of political and economic power to the cities and regions, and away from London, by saying he wants an elected second chamber completely recast as representative of the cities, regions and nations of the UK.

The UK parliament's second chamber inflicted 14 government defeats on the bill, which sets out arrangements to facilitate Brexit.

But even if you are pro-elected second chambers this really is a dog's breakfast of a bill.

Conversely, it's likely easier for a left - wing party to rely on the Salisbury convention to push policies through the Lords than an elected second chamber where it may no longer apply.

• Futher reform of the House of Lords, removing remaining hereditary peers to create smaller and democratically constituted second chamber.

«As a subordinate second chamber, the House of Lords is an effective, vital but undervalued part of our political system.

As part of the 2017 Audit of UK Democracy, Sonali Campion, Sean Kippin and the DA team examine how the UK's deeply controversial current second chamber, the House of Lords, matches up to the criteria for liberal democracies with bi-cameral legislatures.

«The central role - and I would argue duty - of an independent second chamber in our constitution is to ask the Commons to think again in such circumstances.»

«Having acted with perhaps excess enthusiasm in bringing in other senior military figures as advisers, the appointment of a former CGS as a neutral backbench peer would underline our commitment to create an effective and expert second chamber.

Tories always had a safe Lords majority, while every Labour government always faced a hostile Tory second chamber.

Britain's second chamber works rather better than often it gives itself credit for.

Political scientist Arend Lijphart has given extensive consideration to what makes second chambers potent.

Conservative sources were briefing over the past 24 hours that plans for Lords reform had been dropped after the prime minister concluded there was no way of getting an elected second chamber past his backbenchers in a form acceptable to his Liberal Democrat colleagues.

Indeed, for some a more confident second chamber would act as a restraint upon the Executive (as distinct from the Commons itself, which, of course, it dominates) and therefore reform does not represent «a zero sum game», but one in which Parliament as a whole benefits vis - à - vis the government.

It is whether Britain can at last move decisively away from having a parliament with a wholly unelected second chamber and march across the watershed towards democratic law - making.

This paper followed the parliamentary votes in March 2007 on the future composition of a fully reformed second chamber, which had been triggered by an earlier white paper (The House of Lords: Reform Cm 7027).

Conservatives focused their opposition to an elected second chamber on the fear that it could gradually undermine the primacy of the Commons, so creating instability.

The poll found that just 5 % of voters favour the status quo — a fully appointed second chamber.

However, a democratic second chamber would also act as a valuable and much more legitimate check on successive UK governments which have been increasingly elected by a minority of voters and an even smaller minority of the electorate.

Yet the Coalition is preparing to replace that House with a new second chamber elected by means of regional party lists.

The Lords is the largest second chamber in the world.