Treasury Bench

British  

noun

1. (in Britain) the front bench to the right of the Speaker in the House of Commons, traditionally reserved for members of the Government

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Treasury Bench

Pale and less cherubic than usual, the old parliamentarian made his way to a corner spot near the Treasury Bench, chatted with members from both sides, voted twice with the government on minor issues.

From Time Magazine Archive

One day Gladstone stood in his place on the Treasury Bench, imposing and thunderous, hurtling upon his rival epithets that became ever more violent.

From Time Magazine Archive

Not many minutes earlier, a weary man had risen from the Treasury Bench to make his way—some few hundred yards to his downy bed.

From Time Magazine Archive

But----" "But," Brougham said, taking him up with a quick, laughing glance, "you are not yet on the Treasury Bench?

From Chippinge Borough by Weyman, Stanley J.

He availed himself of his knowledge that there was nobody on the Treasury Bench who could answer him to fling out this spiteful and intemperate invective.

From The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. III by Greville, Charles