front bench

Noun

Meaning

any of the front seats in the House of Commons that are reserved for ministers or former ministers

Hypernyms

Examples

If you can tell me there are no adulterers on the front bench of the Labour Party you can talk to me about Profumo. Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone

1959 Oldsmobiles were offered with "Autronic Eye" (a dashboard-mounted automatic headlight dimmer) as well as factory-installed air conditioning and power-operated front bench seat as available options. Source: Internet

And on Monday, with Parliament’s resumption, he welcomed the heads of two new ministries to the front bench: the Ministry of Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs and the Ministry of Indigenous Services. Source: Internet

Soon after that, Bennett found herself in the position of having to defend Muller as he faced flak for the lack of Māori on his front bench – Bennett was the highest-ranked. Source: Internet

The shadow foreign secretary, whose Islington seat neighbours that of Jeremy Corbyn, was forced to resign from Ed Miliband's front bench in 2014 after tweeting an apparently mocking image of a house in Rochester with a white van and England flags outside. Source: Internet

This is a leader of the Opposition who sat on the front bench whilst there was anti-Semitism. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms