0 one of the two rows of seats in the UK parliament used by leading members of the government and leading members of the main opposition party (= the party not in government), or the people who sit in these seats:
The prime minister's reply was met with howls of laughter from the opposition front bench.
a former front-bench Treasury spokeswoman
May we have an answer from his front bench tonight?
Moroney took over the education portfolio, with specific responsibility for primary and secondary schooling, and joined the party's front bench.
Are we going to hear his voice lifted up in protest against the action of his sorely-pressed and much attacked front bench?
If there are any conspirators at work in this matter, they are sitting on the front bench opposite.
It is the case with your front bench.
I am sorry that my own front bench should get cheap and shoddy in its opinions.
The board of directors on the front bench have been obliged by the calendar to put something in print.
I want to exonerate our front bench in regard to this matter.
