Sentences with phrase «wider constitutional reform»
Lib - Lab coalition For all the differences that Labour and the Liberal Democrats might claim during debates and on the campaign trail, it seems probable that a deal to put AV + to a referendum as part of wider constitutional reform would be one of the first measures of a Lib - Lab coalition.
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Another important feature of the context was the rise, from 1988, of Charter 88 as a pressure group and wider political movement arguing the case for comprehensive constitutional reform.
Multiple problems, rooted in the structure of the state, calling for wide - ranging reform at a basic level: a constitutional moment.
Opponents of a constitutional convention, including several public employee unions, worry that instead of gaining reforms, the wide - open nature of the convention could result in the loss of some rights that exist now in the state's constitution.
He examines the wide - ranging proposals for constitutional reform, which were in the coalition agreement.
In the interim period, we will seek to end the hereditary principle and reduce the size of the current House of Lords as part of a wider package of constitutional reform to address the growing democratic deficit across Britain.
The protests subsided following a series of political reforms including constitutional changes that saw King Mohamed VI give up some of his wide - ranging powers.
A few of course parroted the distortions the «No» campaign was built on or gave wanting to do in Nick Clegg as an excuse for voting against, but far more voted AV down because it had become too tied up with the politics of the Coalition and thus divorced from a wider and more genuine discussion of constitutional reform.
[4] The Liberal Democrat manifesto included a commitment to address the status of England as part of wider UK constitutional reforms.
High - profile ambassadors can play a role in keeping the constitutional reform process in the public spotlight, to educate the wider community, and to promote popular ownership of the process.