How to pronounce“backbenches”in English

backbenches, if it were Putin doing this, the Prime Minister would not be saying, "Oh, it's up to the Russians to decide whether or not this is legal."

backbenches.

backbenches. Where's the balance of power between backbenches and Downing Street?

resistance from its own backbenches, particularly when it came to changes to personal independence payments, because the concern among Labour backbenchers

cabinet and the backbenches, and also his opposite numbers.

allowed the Labor backbenches to actually find themselves with something to >> that's definitely true when when I speak

to lots of Labour backbenches across the the political wings of the party broadly you know there is a there is a lot of support for that but also tinged with

emboldened uh uh backbenches and there will be always some who have whichever constituency it is in mind who are the ones for whom whatever it is turns out

do something that was popular with the backbenches kept them on side uh gave her a lot of sort of plaudits but isn't necessarily popular with with voters

the OBR versus loads of backbenches about either spending cuts or some tax

between Downing Street and the backbenches has shifted in the last couple of weeks.

when having rebels on your back backbenches is the occupational hazard of being the prime minister.

She's trying to keep her backbenches happy.

annoyed and I think upset some Labour front um and backbenches the prime minister acknowledging that these are the hard yards in the context of getting

with like the cabinet standing there and the all the backbenches there.

statement on this particular issue being shoved by his own backbenches on this issue of Palestinian statethood.

to see that she would just be expected to return to the backbenches having publicly given Burnham her support and his team obviously are conscious of the

you've got at the moment between government and lots of Labor backbenches about there's a frustration in government that in their view not enough

Uh I think most backbenches to be honest uh were taken

They tried to reform welfare and their own backbenches revolted and they caved and they said, "No, no, no.

budget time as well yes this budget is shaping up to be enormous and which chancellor can get that past uh the Labour backbenches.

was angry and it was frustrated and it was spilling out in public and some of the MPs who were sat on the backbenches today to be there to support Karma were

much in this 12 months whether it's on economics whether it's on how they've managed the backbenches whatever there's just so much wasted energy because there

But it gives you some sense of the of the concern the concern that there is on on Labour's backbenches and the persuasion that the

of voice of the labor member and a voice of the labor soft left on the backbenches or does s does she choose a path of being loyal and publicly loyal

measures she was taking which now of course she'll have to be a voice on the backbenches.

were briefing us, people were saying there is a lot of resistance on the backbenches to removing the PIP payments from thousands of people and it was the

And so as a consequence of that, what they said was, "Okay, look, we hear what you're saying, Labour backbenches.

And they said Rachel Reeves, Pat McFadden, if they're on the backbenches, every time there's an economic statement from the Chancellor, Ed Miliband, they

Labour tries to get its backbenchers to spend less of the money that we do not have, the backbenches don't like it.

I wonder if backbenches are going to put up with that.

Henry, how vulnerable do you think the government is to their backbenches kicking off on

And the reason I bring up her name is she was very highprofile leading the charge from the Labour backbenches in that debate on Wednesday about releasing

about to be an imminent leadership challenge against Kier Starmer, but the fact it was Angela Rainer sort of leading the charge from the backbenches

is is that it that those are the words that Mel Stride, the Cher Chancellor, used in the Commons and some of his MPs on the Tory backbenches think that this

I went onto the backbenches and I started to campaign

So number one Starmer rather than trying to stick it to his angry backbenches and said I've got a huge majority come and have a go

So yeah, I it is a job I'm doing differently from I'm doing it essentially from the backbenches, but I'm, you know, I'm not here to, as I

And every time I've been every you're reporting on both of you guys are reporting on the ructions in the Labour backbenches looks

Not least because this is going to be very uncomfortable for some people on the Labor backbenches and some of them have

Where there is a potential division between Labour backbenches or a sizable chunk of them and the government and it is her

The flip side to that is that I speak to folk in and around government and indeed labor backbenches um who want the government to succeed who just think

because he will be able to sort of soothe some of the fevered business brows that there have been and Jonathan Reynolds well-liked on the backbenches

Um there's a lot of pressure from various people within the cabinet and on the Labour backbenches over the two child

wasn't keen having lost the leadership race and probably a bit exhausted by government etc etc and he is keen now um he's been very quiet on the backbenches