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Ahead of FMQs, Presiding Officer Kenneth Gibson announced that voting for the parliament's new committee chairs had begun.

Ahead of the Conservative party’s spring conference, David Cameron is increasingly worried about Tory backbench dissent – and about how much worse it could get after the AV referendum. David Cameron ...

In British-style parliamentary systems, a backbencher is a member of parliament who doesn’t hold government office and isn’t a spokesperson of the opposition. They’re essentially a rank and file ...

Tasmanian government minister Madeleine Ogilvie will move to the backbench after accusations she misled parliament.