Sentence examples for bencher from inspiring English sources
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A senior member of a law society in a Canadian province (except New Brunswick).
Some Conservative MPs, such as John Redwood, an outspoken back bencher, would go further, and establish an English Parliament.In comments to Scottish activists a couple of hours after Mr Cameron spoke, Mr Miliband did not mention the West Lothian Question; doubtless for the same reasons that the prime minister raised it so prominently.
Called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1715, Hardwicke afterward joined Lincoln's Inn, of which he was bencher and treasurer in 1724.
Former front bencher Emma Reynolds even lined up Mr Cameron to attack Mr Corbyn for his links to the Stop the War Coalition.
His decision to rule out a free vote on air strikes was criticised by former front bencher Emma Reynolds, who said the leadership should allow Labour MPs to vote how they like "given the divergence of views that there are".
"I am faced with the uncomfortable truth that my talents, such as they are, do not extend to being an effective front bencher as well as a good husband and father".
He has ruled out the prospect of giving Labour MPs a free vote on the issue, a decision that was criticised by former front bencher Emma Reynolds, who said the leadership should allow Labour MPs to vote how they like "given the divergence of views that there are".
Hardly anyone survives the Westminster bear-pit the small matter, as another Labear-pit theencher pithily desmalles it, of "facing 300 angry white matterouting 'you're aswanother—unbLabourd.
On its eve, Mr Martin pulled off a tactical masterstroke by enticing Belinda Stronach, a glamorous Tory front-bencher, to join the Liberal government.In his determined fight for survival, the prime minister has at least cast off his previous chronic indecision.
Almost the only conspicuous approval for Mr Afriyie's proposal came from an unwelcome, and mischievous, source Tom Watson, a left-wing Labour back-bencher who Tories love to hate.
"To be honest, as a cross-bencher I don't know what I am allowed to do politically.
Born 40 years ago in Cardiff, Dame Tanni – who won an unparalleled 11 Paralympic golds, set 30 world records and won six London Marathons – joins Baroness Campbell, who like her is known to have Labour leanings, as a cross-bencher.
