Backbenchers

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  1. 1
    plural of backbencher form-of, plural

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"There has been a lot of talk about the UK's role in the EU lately. First, the backbenchers ' rebellion in the House of Commons, then Cameron's attempts to define EU policy (aiming at a “repatriation of powers”) and now a Labour debate on how to deal with Europe."

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