The party jeers from the backbenches and fights internal vendettas.

因为其后座议员的地位以及党内斗争而受到其他政党的嘲笑。

One trenchant backbench critic acknowledges that many Tory MPs “usually follow the prevailing pattern”.

一位后座议员兼批评家一针见血地指出, 许多托利党议员“一般都会遵循眼下流行的观点”。

Bill Cash, a Conservative British backbench politician, has written a book about another backbench politician, who also happens to be an ancestor.

比尔·卡什(Bill Cash), 这个英国保守党普通议员为另一位普通议员写了一本书, 而其撰写的这个人物恰好是他的一位先人。

Margaret Papandreou, who lives modestly near Corinth, a provincial town, and her son, now a backbench MP, swiftly denied the allegations.

这名叫玛格丽特·帕潘德里欧的母亲现在希腊地方小镇科林斯（Corinth）过着低调的日子。她与现任后座议员的帕潘德里欧立即对此指控矢口否认。

And it's the moment when there's a weakness in the PM is actually driven by his backbench.

。 而这正是 PM 的弱点实际上是由他的后座驱动的。

She's on the backbenches arguing about this point and you just look incompetent and divided.

她在后座上就这一点争论不休， 而你看起来既无能又分裂。

These are often communications she was sending to political allies, one particular political ally, an MP on the backbenches.

这些通常是她发送给政治盟友的通讯，一个特定的政治盟友， 一位后座议员。

When the cat's away, the mice will play and we know the backbenches, the Tory party are at it all the time.

当猫不在时， 老鼠会玩耍， 我们知道后座议员，保守党一直都在。

One new centre-left MP praises a fine “buffet” of different approaches; a backbench grandee talks of the value of “safety valves” on hot issues.

一位新中左议员赞其为提供不同点子的精致“自助餐”；一位后座政要称其在热点问题上起到了“安全阀”的重要作用。

What I would say about that is that it's extremely unusual for backbench MPs of a governing party to vote against the budget.

我要说的是， 执政党的后座议员投票反对预算是极其不寻常的。