Definition of "crossbencher" []

• A member of the British parliament, or a similar assembly, who does not vote regularly with either the government or the main opposition party. (noun)

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• "The rulings coincided with a vote in the House of Lords today to suspend two Labour peers and a crossbencher who wrongly claimed overnight allowances – the most serious sanctions ever taken in the Lords."
• "This is a Labour amendment, backed by crossbencher Lord Best and the Bishop of Ripon and Leeds."
• "The means test would have applied to cancer patients and stroke survivors, and was denounced by Lord Patel, a crossbencher and former president of the Royal College of Obstetricians, as an immoral attack on the sick, the vulnerable and the poor."