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front bench

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front bench
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a. the foremost bench of either the Government or Opposition in the House of Commons
b. the leadership (frontbenchers) of either group, who occupy this bench
c. (as modifier): a front-bench decision


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The sea change it represents is that people want health care put on the front bench and not relegated to back seat.
Ottawa--New Democrat Svend Robinson has been reprimanded by his party and demoted from the front bench after the openly homosexual MP presented a petition demanding that the reference to the supremacy of God be removed from the preamble of Canada's constitution.
She is also a former Member of Parliament and front bench spokesman of Treasury matters and a former director of the Financial Services Authority.
 
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