Word: backbenches
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...Cabinet, even though such a move would split the party down the middle. Wilson's political stock also waned when he prearranged parliamentary support for continuing the ban-the first time in recent memory that a Prime Minister has gone over the Cabinet's head for "backbench" allies...
...second revolt demanded harsh er treatment. It was an irate motion, signed by 35 backbench Laborite radi cals, to condemn Wilson's support of U.S. policies in Viet Nam. The cause, of course, was "peace," and what rankled the radicals most was that Wilson had agreed with the U.S. decision to resume the bombing of North Viet...
...program to renationalize the steel industry. Right behind Maudling and Heath in authority Sir Alec installed Selwyn Lloyd, 60, onetime Foreign Secretary and a highly regarded party stalwart who was sacked by Macmillan as Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1961. Lloyd's job: to drill the backbench battalions for the counteroffensive against Labor in the Parliament that opens this week...
Never the LIke Again. Last week he and his House of Commons bade each other final farewell. Leaning heavily on his two backbench volunteer escorts, Churchill-now 89 and too feeble to stand for re-election-rose painfully from his front-row corner seat, tottered up the aisle, turned slowly to make the usual bow of recognition to the Speaker...
...used by the Prime Minister as a ruse to flush out all the top contenders for his own job. There is even widespread suspicion that Nehru forced the resignations of his ablest ministers in order to clear the way for his daughter, imperious Indira Gandhi, 45, widow of a backbench Congress politician (no kin to the Mahatma), who has long been the Prime Minister's closest confidante (he calls her Indu, or Moon), official hostess and political troubleshooter...