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- noun Plural form of
frontbencher .
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Not a sheep: "The BBC is" love-bombing "Tory frontbenchers, candidates and (even) bloggers" skip to main | skip to sidebar
"The BBC is "love-bombing" Tory frontbenchers, candidates and (even) bloggers" Not a sheep 2009
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It was also remarkably inept that no one around him seems to have guessed that he and other Labour frontbenchers were going to be asked to list examples of which British businesses were "producers" and which were "predators".
Why the conference season felt like three weeks in Lilliput | Andrew Rawnsley 2011
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Bernie Grant, Paul Boateng and others were not Labour frontbenchers and often to the left of Michael Foot and the party leadership: they were able to serve as credible representatives of areas in turmoil.
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This result is an SNP of both left and right, with frontbenchers well to the left of Labour and business supporters such as Sir George Mathewson, the former chairman of RBS.
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None of the other parties at Westminster choose their frontbenchers in this way.
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You might hope that senior frontbenchers would have a more nuanced view.
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Labour frontbenchers were in exceptionally good spirits as they emerged from prime minister's questions on Wednesday.
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Certainly, Labour frontbenchers say that once the scale of the budgetary bloodletting is made explicit, they will have their best chance yet to win back disgruntled supporters.
George Osborne's talk of percentages and billions will wash over most of us Aditya Chakrabortty 2010
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Labour frontbenchers were in exceptionally good spirits as they emerged from prime minister's questions on Wednesday.
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Where are the frontbenchers explaining how they will promote fairer wages within private industry or the particular public services they are concerned with?
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