Sentences with phrase «statement on constitutional reform»

In effect, this arrangement would codify the position as reported by the prime minister in his statement on constitutional reform in July 2007 that the attorney general had decided that during the consultation process, she would not «make key prosecution decisions in individual criminal cases» (unless the law or national security required it).

Indeed the government's need to make the statement tomorrow forced Nick Clegg, the deputy prime minister, to bring forward his own statement on constitutional reform to today.

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Mr Brown made his statement to MPs on constitutional reform as he seeks to regain the political initiative after a week of turmoil.

It's been many years since I began campaigning for the House of Commons to have a say on whether we went to war or not, so I was delighted that the Cabinet Secretary in a so far unreported statement told the Political and Constitutional Reform Committee this week that he would examine the words needed to put the right of Parliament to be involved in the war - making process into the Cabinet Manual.

Clegg, in his statement on political and constitutional reform last week, was addressing the Commons as Deputy Prime Minister.

Signs of that movement from non-Indigenous Australians came today with a joint statement by almost 1,000 academics, civil society groups, lawyers and charities calling on the Federal Government to «respect the wishes of Australia's First Nations peoples in the Uluru Statement and make constitutional reforms that enable First Nations peoples to take their rightful place in Australia an immediate national priority».