Deliberative Democracy APPG

1: our first year we will set up a Constitution, Democracy & Rights Commission.” This was confirmed - Speech Link
2: referendums should be used in our parliamentary democracy, perhaps by following some of the recommendations - Speech Link
3: of administrative law and the constitution, democracy and human rights commission being discussed today - Speech Link
4: Majesty’s Government have plans to expand the deliberative democracy initiatives that they have so far sponsored - Speech Link

1: ensuring that our response to the climate crisis is deliberative, democratic and fair, and moving forward with - Speech Link
2: Tough action needs to be taken, but we are a democracy and we need to take the people with us. Too often - Speech Link
3: were made to ensure that their work informed deliberative discussion in each group.There were disadvantages - Speech Link
4: unavoidable, but the pace at which it happens in a democracy like ours and the extent to which it is orderly - Speech Link
5: policies for net zero. In the past year, we held deliberative workshops with the public on transport, heat - Speech Link

1: my book, if a democracy cannot be allowed to change its mind, it ceases to be a democracy.When the - Speech Link
2: British or English. There is also a naive view of democracy as plebiscite: “the people have spoken”. You do - Speech Link
3: anything in the past few months, I hope it is that democracy is changing. Those of us involved in democratic - Speech Link
4: representative democracy? Do our MPs not count? This Government, in this 21st century UK democracy, say that - Speech Link

1: voters are losing confidence in our representative democracy. The report by the Institute for Public Policy - Speech Link
2: establishing a proportional system by holding deliberative discussions—citizens’ assemblies—across the - Speech Link
3: would be very wary of doing that to our democracy.Democracy, as Winston Churchill said, is the worst - Speech Link
4: delivered such decisive results because of the deliberative democracy that took place in advance. Does the hon - Speech Link
5: wake up and fundamentally challenge the way our democracy works—not just how we vote but, more importantly - Speech Link
6: opportunity to feel that they have a stake in their democracy, as well as a voice. Once we are elected as MPs - Speech Link
7: hope—in this debate.I understand that democracy has to evolve. It always will, and it absolutely - Speech Link

1: polling can contribute to public policy-making in a democracy. But it has to be good polling and this ComRes - Speech Link
2: benchmarks that would be appropriate only if a deliberative public consultation was being discussed, in - Speech Link
3: be unwanted regulation of business and bad for democracy. Is this necessary? I think not—but no doubt someone - Speech Link

1: the other place this week that is meaningful, deliberative and decisive—and this could go on and on. To - Speech Link

1: own interests, but about the wider interests of democracy and the representative system. I am sure that - Speech Link
2: interests but to the wider reputation of our democracy. We have that duty in everything that we do, whatever - Speech Link
3: to the House of Commons and our representative democracy that few on either side of the House would able - Speech Link
4: in politicians. We need to be considerate and deliberative, and to think carefully about the problems in - Speech Link

1: British values include respect for the law, for democracy and for equality, and tolerance of different beliefs - Speech Link
2: values on their own are abstract. Every modern democracy will espouse the values articulated by the Department - Speech Link
3: to get rid of it. We championed parliamentary democracy, but now it is the referendum which is trumpeted - Speech Link
4: to respect the fundamental British values of democracy, the rule of law and individual liberty, and show - Speech Link
5: our most vital institutions: our parliamentary democracy, our free press, our justice system and our many - Speech Link
6: what consideration the Government have given to deliberative processes involving the British people themselves - Speech Link
7: whole principle of consultation is that it is deliberative and that people will respond. I hope they do - Speech Link

1: is certainly Sir Brian’s intention that the deliberative sessions of those expert groups should be undertaken - Speech Link

1: Our Government have consistently been too deliberative on human rights and international law infringement - Speech Link