any of the seats occupied by backbenchers in the House of Commons

He cultivates backbench MPs and activists assiduously.

他不辞辛劳地培养下院议员和其他活动分子。

Such a motion is considered a test of backbench opinion.

这样的动议被视为对后座议员立场的考验。

With the backbench support of the far-right Freedom Party and its leader, Geert Wilders (see Charlemagne), the new government will have a majority of just one in the 150-seat parliament.

依靠极右派自由党及其党首吉特·威尔德(Geert Wilder)在后座议员席位的支持，新一届政府才能议会150个席位中占多数席位。

They also have a free vote on a number of backbench amendments to tighten the law on abortion.

他们同样也对一些加强流产控制法的补充议案自由投票。

In July 2009 David Davis, a backbench Conservative MP, used parliamentary privilege to air Mr Ahmed「s case; he received no response from ministers, who said the case was sub judice.

2009年7月，下院保守党后座议员大卫·戴维斯利用议会特权公开了艾哈迈德的案子，但是首相认为这起案子仍在审理中，并没有给与回应。

The Tories haplessly failed to win two parliamentary by-elections; some of their donors and a few backbench MPs began to mutiny, and Mr Brown readied his party for another, early, election.

不幸的是，托利党还是没有赢得两次议会的补选；一些捐款人和后座议员开始反抗，但是布朗的党派已经準备进行第二场提前选举。

There were signs that this lead would be followed by backbench MPs who feared a backlash from the public.

有迹象表明后座议员们会效仿这种作风，毕竟他们都担忧公众会有过激反应。

He dismisses the arguments David Cameron used last week to defeat the Tory backbench calls for a referendum on the EU: 「In a way he」s right.」

他否定了大卫·卡梅伦上周击败保守党后座议员要求就欧盟成员身份进行全民公决的动议时的论据：「在某种程度上他是对的。」

Gordon Brown warned senior backbench MPs yesterday that western forces were facing a 「new type of threat」 in Afghanistan.

布朗首相昨日对后排议员表示，西方军队在阿富汗现正面临着一种新型的威胁。

This goes further than recent disclosures about Stonehouse, an aviation minister and postmaster general, which suggested that he was useful to the Czechs only as a backbench MP.

这则信息比最近的发现- - -—斯通豪斯是航空主席和邮政大臣———要深入的多。最近的爆料说明他在捷克的用处至多当一名后座国会议员。

Moreover, all the signs are that the new intake of backbench Tories will be bursting for a row over Europe.

此外，一切都表明，托利党将吸纳更多新人加入后座议员的行列，遍布欧洲。

The wisdom of the retired generals and backbench MPs conjoins.

退役将军和后座议员的智慧结合在一起。