But I think we have some outstanding talent in both government parties on the backbenches. Yes.

Expect her to get a deputy minister role in place of somebody such as Gwenda Thomas, who could be moved to the backbenches without anybody really noticing.

1979: Labour MP Tony Benn was returning to the backbenches, rather than seeking a place in James Callaghan's shadow cabinet -fuelling speculation that he was about to make a bid to become Party leader.

They are the ones least likely to benefit from the various concessions which have been bolted on to this Bill in an attempt to squeeze it past the many doubters on the Labour backbenches.

David Wilshire, vice-chairman of the Tories' backbench Northern Ireland Committee, said if that was true it would produce "an enormous uproar on the backbenches".

Writing on Twitter, Mr Pritchard said: "No major revolt on the Tory backbenches. However, there is a growing frustration that Number 10 is not plugged into the views and opinions of many backbench MPs or even interested.

Louise and Tom have returned to the backbenches and the business of chucking stuff at each other, and generally making a spectacle of themselves, while the billionaire family gets on with building the $40bn (pounds 25bn) business it has built from scratch.

Instead, he will use the "freedom" of the backbenches to stand up for Coventry as the coalition government sets about its aggressive pounds 113bn deficit reduction plan.

But the protest continued - with Labour and Tory backbenches joining ranks to say the concession did not go far enough.

At the top of their list is the formation of a formal committee, which would elect its own officers and exist to act as a link between the backbenches and the leadership.

"Peter's too good to be languishing on the backbenches," whisper "friends of the MP".