Sentences with phrase «to elect some peers»
The phrase "to elect some peers" means to choose or select a few people to become members of a group or organization with similar social status or qualifications. Full definition
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.
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Viscount Astor is among several senior peers voicing concerns about the government's proposals to introduce elected peers to the Lords by 2015.
Under the Tory proposal to be put to Nick Clegg, the 92 hereditary peers would be replaced with elected peers.
British political culture is turning to personality to fill the ideological gap, I suggest, and the constitutional innovations of the coalition - elected mayors, police and crime commissioners, even elected peers - are a response to that problem, even as they try to address the engagement problem.
(There's talk of a compromise of 120 elected peers by 2015 — or just electing enough Lords to replace the hereditary peers.)
The new bill will use European parliament boundaries to ensure that the new elected peers are not duplicating or undermining the constituency work of MPs, as part of fresh safeguards designed to allay the fears of many Tory MPs that an elected second chamber could supplant their power and create constitutional deadlock.
The changes are focused on reassuring MPs that the newly elected peers will not become «ersatz MPs», competing with Commons MPs.
Clegg told MPs: «It is essential that we make a start by having the first 120 elected peers elected in 2015.
Campaigners for a largely elected Lords see the appointment as a victory for traditionalists who want to keep elected peers to a minimum.
(David Cameron is reported today to say elected peers will not have salaries.
If you or other MPs feel there are some assurances you or other MPs need after the first wave of elected peers have been elected, such that the second or third stages of reform are subject to some kind of trigger, then of course I would be prepared to look at that.
Nick Clegg confirmed rumours that the government has dropped a bill which would have introduced elected peers to the House of Lords and dramatically reduced its size, something he said he was forced to do after Tory backbenchers and the Labour party refused to back a crucial vote on the legislation last month.
Sir Menzies has argued for constitutional change, with elected peers and more powerful local councils.
The constituency concern is that elected peers would tread on MPs» toes.
• Imposing a five - year gap before an elected peer can become an MP after serving a 15 - year term as a peer.
Downing Street pointed to the 462 MPs who had supported the bill's second reading to hail the «significant majority» who voted to take reform forward, and denied Tuesday night's setback meant there was no longer sufficient time for the first tranche of elected peers to take their seats in 2015.
Next year the public would be choosing the first 120 elected peers.
Then there will be a row over the way the elected peers are chosen.
April 2005: Labour launches its election manifesto, which proposes a review of the powers of the House of Lords, with the last hereditary peers removed and MPs given a free vote on whether to elect some peers.
Strategic planning and regular follow - up reports are monitored by a commission of elected peers and overseen by a professional staff to ensure that goals and recommended institutional improvement can be accomplished.