front bench in English
noun
1
(in the UK) the foremost seats in the House of Commons, occupied by the members of the cabinet and shadow cabinet.
Worse still, according to Phillip Johnston, is the prospect of a Tory front-bench spokesman clashing with a speaker representing a Scottish seat.
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1. 10 Some of the Government front bench still believe our relationship with the US is paramount.
2. Cropper (plural Croppers) (normally confined to the expression come a Cropper) A fall, a tumble.1900, Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Avon Books, (translated by James Strachey) page: 185: But to myself I thought: ‘Considering that for eight whole years I sat on the front bench as top of the class while he drifted about somewhere in the middle