NOUN
- any of the front seats in the House of Commons that are reserved for ministers or former ministers
How To Use front bench In A Sentence
- Most Labour MPs who quit the front bench will return only if elections are held. Times, Sunday Times
- The Opposition front bench, and most of the other Opposition benches as well, would be occupied by the Conservatives.
- Some of the Government front bench still believe our relationship with the US is paramount.
- Some of the Government front bench still believe our relationship with the US is paramount.
- Its front bench has a younger profile, and with its policies not very far from those of the current government, it will find little ideological problems with the moderate policies now favoured by Labour.
- Nigel Jones, who won Cheltenham for the Liberal Democrats has been named front bench spokesman on housing and local government.
- Some of the Government front bench still believe our relationship with the US is paramount.
- A front bencher from the last parliament said frankly: None of us has the first sodding idea about what government means, whether any of us will be any good at it, or even what being good at it means ....... Archive 2008-11-01
- Six boys from the front bench were selected.
- The witnesses are ranged along the front benches, behind them the jury, then the journalists, a few photographers.
