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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".

    Graham Stringer, MP for Blackley: Dyslexia is a myth.

  • 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.

    GORDON'S PRONOUNCED DIFFICULTIES

  • 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.

    GORDON'S PRONOUNCED DIFFICULTIES

  • Rumours that Ming has mercilessly sacked Lord Razzall from his post as Lib Dem campaigns chief are, the Backbencher hears, completely untrue.

    Razzall skedaddles

  • Today's Guardian Backbencher e-mail, sent out at 17: 06, confidently announced:

    Razzall skedaddles

  • Tory friends of the Backbencher told stories of MPs'

    LEMBIT'S LAMA DRAMA

  • 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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