backbenchers

The view of many backbenchers is that he has got to go.

Archive 2008-06-01 2008

The fairer rap on Mr. Gingrich is that his management style was chaotic and eventually lost the confidence of his deputies and backbenchers, which is true.

Professor Gingrich's Ethics 2012

Hands up if anyone can recall backbenchers in a past government actually issuing press releases calling on their own government to pursue this or that policy?

Archive 2006-03-01 ALW 2006

Hands up if anyone can recall backbenchers in a past government actually issuing press releases calling on their own government to pursue this or that policy?

Going Overboard ALW 2006

He said BN would not call the backbenchers, who would know what to do if approached by the PKR delegation.

unknown title 2008

He said BN would not call the backbenchers, who would know what to do if approached by the PKR delegation.

unknown title 2008

Those MPs who are not in cabinet or shadow cabinet are termed "backbenchers".

Scott Baker: Interview With Canadian Green Party Politicians Erich Jacoby Hawkins and John Fisher Scott Baker 2011

Those MPs who are not in cabinet or shadow cabinet are termed "backbenchers".

Scott Baker: Interview With Canadian Green Party Politicians Erich Jacoby Hawkins and John Fisher Scott Baker 2011

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), part of the group of new GOP leaders who have dubbed themselves the Young Guns, said in a recent interview that many of his Republican colleagues were "backbenchers" during the Bush administration, though fellow Young Gun Eric Cantor (Va.), the Republican whip, was in the House leadership for much of Bush's tenure.

Both parties are bashing Bush, but their own weaknesses shine through 2010

"father figure" for disgruntled government backbenchers, which is believed to have irked Gonzi.

The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2009