0 (the seats used by) members of the British Parliament who do not have official positions in the government or in an opposing political party:
The surge in backbench dissent could, for example, be the result of actions by both demoted incumbents and poorly socialized neophytes.
Phosa's transition to the national backbench left him as chair of the provincial party for a period, but later that year he announced his retirement from politics.
There is very much of a backbench interest in this question which must be preserved.
Turning to the developments more deliberately planned, since 1966 we have greatly extended the opportunities for backbench participation with the new specialist committee experiment.
He has made it easy to begin the backbench debate.
I am not sure that we have heard more than one backbench member so far who could really tell us about the coal situation.
He said that backbench opinion would be listened to.
This debate has seen an extraordinary backbench revolt.
