He would also lower the voting age to 17, and lessen the personal power of the prime minister.
They are calling for an immediate moratorium on new appointments, a new cap so that the Lords never has more than 750 members, a new mechanism that would allow peers to retire, and fresh curbs on the power of a prime minister to appoint so many peers in the first place.
Of course, for the majority of his time in power the prime minister presided over the greatest centralisation of power in our public services since the Attlee government.
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After taking over the reins of power at the end of June, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is set to have a very tough time staying out of his predecessor's shadow.
For a year Faisal shuffled between the ministries of investment and power, the Federal Board of Revenue and the prime minister's office.
Others say he may try to secure his survival in office by arranging some kind of power-sharing agreement with exiled former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, leader of arguably the country's most powerful opposition party.
And it would open up a rival power base to that of the prime minister, something a Westminster system is not designed to cope with.
Tony Blair spent most of his prime ministership running around the issue of nuclear power (at the last minute deciding it was all right).
Alternatively, MPs themselves could vote for an early dissolution - a power currently in the hands of the prime minister.
If cabinet government means collective decision-making, it vanished in the first world war, when the job of the state grew and power was spun out to a web of committees with the prime minister at the centre.
Every year, 3, 000 children elect their members of parliament, their government and their prime minister, all of whom have real power in their hands.
The Bush administration continued to support Musharraf after elections in February saw the effective loss of his political power to an opposition coalition led by former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of assassinated former Prime Minster Benazir Bhutto.
The rise to power of Turkey has coincided with that of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has combined social conservatism with fiscally cautious economic policies to make his Justice and Development Party, or A.K.P.
Electoral reform in Scotland and Wales has achieved its object of ensuring that a party without a majority of the votes cannot claim the arbitrary power of a sovereign majority, though the prime minister appears to have been surprised to discover that this was the case.
His victory in parliament, by a margin of 235 to 198, was achieved by luring away former government members of parliament, including stalwart followers of Thaksin Shinawatra, the ex-prime minister who was convicted in absentia of abusing power and now lives in exile.
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It goes without saying that atavistic emotions such as class revenge or the sheer joy of exercising absolute power are wholly alien to the character and political philosophy of Britain's present prime minister.
Mr Djukanovic and his friends may win the election, but, in an awkward balance of power, Mr Bulatovic may remain federal prime minister while also leading Montenegro's biggest party.
By staying in power as prime minister, argues Boris Makarenko of the Centre for Political Technologies, Mr Putin at least has a chance to revise the legacy of his rule.
Philip Johnson's legendary and persuasive charm was a prime tool in his arsenal of power.
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Vladimir Putin, the Russian prime minister and still the real power of the land, suggested that he wants more concessions.
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In 1989, Congress lost power largely because of allegations that members of then-prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's government and businessmen close to the administration had received bribes from the Swedish arms manufacturer Bofors.
The prime minister said he believed in the power of the internet as a tool in ending the social "digital divide".
Putin has been in some position of power since the time Boris Yeltisin appointed him as prime minister in the late 1990s.
Mr Abdullah stepped down in 2009, handing power to Mr Najib who became prime minister and leader of the main coalition party, United Malays National Organisation (Umno).
After 11 years in power, Mr Howard is facing the worst opinion polls of his prime ministership.
It is that a conviction has gripped much of society that the prime minister will stay in power indefinitely.
First he broke ranks with Necmettin Erbakan, his old mentor, who was Turkey's first Islamist prime minister and was himself shoved out of power in 1997 by the country's meddlesome generals.
He came to power only last October, upon the retirement of Mahathir Mohamad, the prime minister of 22 years.
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The prime minister needs to be given power to take charge of a ministry if there is an emergency.
On Tuesday, Northern Ireland's first and deputy first ministers met the prime minister over devolving the power to set the rate of the tax.
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