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And on Wednesday night, I was taken for an after-work drink and food to the Backbencher, which is a pub / café / restaurant housed in one of the many colonial buildings there are here (as is my apartment on The Terrace).
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And on Wednesday night, I was taken for an after-work drink and food to the Backbencher, which is a pub / café / restaurant housed in one of the many colonial buildings there are here (as is my apartment on The Terrace).
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Backbencher: I support the idea of the House passing the Senate bill and fixing the weak points through reconciliation.
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Backbencher Graham Stringer, MP for Blackley, describes the condition as a "cruel fiction" that should be consigned to the "dustbin of history".
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It's half term recess, and while some MP's have gone back to their constituencies to prepare for opposition, the Backbencher sits in a bar with two Blairite refugees from No 10 compiling an A to Z of Brown's problems.
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If he were to be removed from No 10, the Backbencher and her colleagues are all convinced that Gordon continuing in politics, sitting on the backbenches, is not feasible.
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Rumours that Ming has mercilessly sacked Lord Razzall from his post as Lib Dem campaigns chief are, the Backbencher hears, completely untrue.
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Today's Guardian Backbencher e-mail, sent out at 17: 06, confidently announced:
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Tory friends of the Backbencher told stories of MPs'
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For a chance of winning it, just tell the Backbencher what colour underpants Tony was wearing when he accused Alastair Campbell of envying his body and asked how many PMs “have a body like this”.
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