cross-bencher

Will he be allowed to sit on the red benches as a Plaid peer, or will he remain as a cross-bencher?

Archive 2007-11-01 2007

My life-peerage was gazetted on 24 October 2000 and I took my seat in the Lords on 16 January 2001 as cross-bencher, supported by Barbara Castle and Denis Healey.

Betty Bothroyd The Autobiography Bothroyd, Betty 1988

Of a sudden (and this proves the fundamental instability of the cross-bench mind) a cross-bencher leaped on his seat and there played an imaginary double-bass with tremendous maestro-like wagglings of the elbow.

A Diversity of Creatures Rudyard Kipling 1900

I'm a member of the House of Lords but when I became chairman of the Trust, I agreed to resign the Conservative whip and become a cross-bencher...

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Donna Bowater 2012

Lord Clancarty, a cross-bencher, points out that nobody's pension is at risk if the PPF doesn't get the money from the sale of the museum's contents: ''It is nonsense that it should ever have gone to court.''

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

Peers to question the direction of the reforms included former Tory ministers Lord Howe and Lord Wakeham, former Labour minister Lord Cunningham and leading cross-bencher Baroness D'Souza - the latter saying the change would give the Lords more "political power" and ultimately the power to veto legislation.

BBC News - Home 2011

Three peers - Baroness Masham of Ilton (cross-bencher), Baroness Tyler of Enfield (Liberal Democrat), and Lord Harris of Haringey (Labour) - have tabled the amendment, with the hope of it being put to a vote.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph Stephen Adams 2012

I'm a member of the House of Lords but when I became chairman of the Trust, I agreed to resign the Conservative whip and become a cross-bencher...

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Donna Bowater 2012

Three peers - Baroness Masham of Ilton (cross-bencher), Baroness Tyler of Enfield (Liberal Democrat), and Lord Harris of Haringey (Labour) - have tabled the amendment, with the hope of it being put to a vote.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph Stephen Adams 2012

Lord Clancarty, a cross-bencher, points out that nobody's pension is at risk if the PPF doesn't get the money from the sale of the museum's contents: ''It is nonsense that it should ever have gone to court.''

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011