| If the Government is reduced to grubbing the votes of its most backward-looking, antediluvian backbenchers, then what is it in office for? |
| Party leaders and backbenchers both rated cross-voting as the most serious violation of party discipline. |
| Even Liberal backbenchers concede that the Prime Minister's first instincts are authoritarian. |
| These are the government frontbenchers, government backbenchers, opposition frontbenchers, and opposition backbenchers. |
| Labour backbenchers precariously hanging on to marginal seats began to stir. |
| His rediscovered Gaullism was one of the forces driving wavering Labour backbenchers into the lobbies to support the Prime Minister. |
