Good afternoon and welcome to our live coverage of First Minister's Questions on Tuesday 23 June. John Swinney will face ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Get ready for backbench Boris. After more than three years as prime minister, Mr Johnson heads for the backbenches, where he is ...

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

It looks like backbench TDs are likely to challenge the Government's plan to scrap the triple lock. The triple lock requires ...

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 ...

The government’s reforms were too fierce. The scale of the backbench rebellion was unusually large. Starmer’s team should have seen what was coming MPs and the parliamentary process rarely get a good ...

Get ready for backbench Boris. After more than three years as prime minister, Mr Johnson heads for the backbenches, where he is expected to be defiant, stir up trouble and plot a Trump-style comeback.