Sentence examples for class parliament from inspiring English sources

Like Hodge and the public accounts committee, Jenkin's every report identifies some further aspect of necessary change in Whitehall, both in machinery and civil service culture and at that fraught boundary between civil service and political class (parliament as well as ministers).

The new system, however, preserved the old division of the electorate into curiae (socioeconomic classes), making parliament in this way a representation of German bourgeois interests.

As the wealth of the lower classes increased, Parliament brought in fresh laws in 1363 to prevent them from consuming expensive goods formerly only affordable by the elite.

Q: What would you do to get more working class people into parliament?

The core of the book, which would have benefited from tighter editing, is an account of Skinner's 40 and more years fighting the class war in parliament.

And, let's face it, we need to increase working-class representation in parliament too.

But there's another and equally pressing reason why we need more working-class voices in parliament, and it's particularly relevant to the Labour party.

The daughter of a bus driver and teacher who grew up in a council house in Liverpool, she is one of relatively few northern working-class Tories in parliament.

Parliament, the class system, the navy, the law, the monarchy and the artistic pretensions of Victorian society all came in for Gilbert's withering scorn and Laurence's approval.

Mr Wishart told the Today programme that the plans will "effectively render us second class in a unitary parliament politicise the office of the Speaker of the House of Commons and add unnecessary burdens with extra stages of legislation to our already over-burdened and over-worked parliament".

But the defects need to be kept in perspective.One famous critic of democracy claimed that for most people it did nothing more than allow them "once every few years, to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class should be in parliament to represent and oppress them".