1.   Small wonder the back benches look so dull.

2.   Mr Robertson is also setting up task forces of back bench MPs to discuss policy.

3.   How does a government, particularly one with a small majority and unsettled back benches, go about presenting a policy which must inevitably be controversial?

4.   It is only small because a very limited number of Conservatives on the back benches are not totally reliable on too many occasions.

5.   Even so, faced with a possible back bench rebellion over privatization of railways, the latest increases are embarrassing.

6.   The Chairman of the Conservatives back bech comm, back bench committee on the environment, Robin Squire, is pleased with the White Paper.

7.   And that has stirred a dispute now that Gingrich has moved from the back bench.

8.   But he turned down an offer of a senior position in the shadow cabinet, saying he preferred to take a position on the back benches.

9.   But you know he will be antsy on the back bench and will want to throw deep with the ball.

10.   Chris Miller, who decisioned him the first time around, finished on a back bench, his headgear cocked on the back of his head.