NOUN
- any of the front seats in the House of Commons that are reserved for ministers or former ministers
How To Use front bench In A Sentence
- Some of the Government front bench still believe our relationship with the US is paramount.
- Nigel Jones, who won Cheltenham for the Liberal Democrats has been named front bench spokesman on housing and local government.
- The show of amity presented by the two men on the front bench yesterday was just that: a show.
- Or from the front bench in this case. The Sun
- She admitted feeling "very demob-happy" when he finally left the Tory front benches in 1999.
- Sadly, such Panglossian self-delusion is not confined merely to the Lab-liar front bench but has seeped into the self-delusory tone of much CiF comment which has reacted splenetically to having been caught with their hands in the cookie jar, the lid of which has now been firmly smacked shut. The 'big society' is collapsing under its inherent absurdity | Catherine Bennett
- She was as much a creature of the control freaks as any of the weaker members of the front bench.
- What a shame we don't hear more of them, and less of - oh, you know, the incessant bleating from the front benches.
- The hall was packed with around 400 undergraduates, while heads of colleges, or dons, sat on the front benches as they do in Parliament.
- Or from the front bench in this case. The Sun