a member of the House of Commons who does not vote regularly with either the government or the opposition
同义词:crossbencher
Up to now the Lords, dominated by independent cross-benchers, have chosen to defeat governments only sparingly.
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Opposition peers and cross-benchers are likely to oppose the ban.
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The government retorts that without the support of the hereditary peers (including cross-benchers, admittedly), the Lords would have been unable to defeat the government over the European elections.
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