When that party dissolved in 1990, she became a crossbencher.

Rather than aligning with a particular political party, he remains a crossbencher.

He sat as a crossbencher in the House, but was well enough to make only one speech in his time there.

He sat in the House of Lords as a crossbencher.

In order to place the bid, he was required to resign from his party affiliation, and thereafter sat as a crossbencher.

It can also be introduced by a crossbencher.

Cox now sits in the Lords as a crossbencher.

Not a single crossbencher backed the government.

In the same month it was announced that she will be created a life peer and enter the House of Lords as a crossbencher.

It includes Joanna Lumley, who is apparently being tipped to become a crossbencher.

Crook stated he would sit as a crossbencher advocating the interests of regional Western Australia.

He sits as a crossbencher.

He retired as a Law lord in 1992 but continued to attend the Lords as a crossbencher.

But Baroness Findlay, Crossbencher, has been making some very good fighting amendments.

She is a crossbencher.

He is a Crossbencher.

In 2011 Falkland left the Liberal Democrats and now sits as a Crossbencher.

Lane Fox joined the House of Lords as a crossbencher on 26 March 2013, becoming its youngest female member.

On 6 March 2013 Shaw resigned from the parliamentary Liberal Party, announcing that he would sit as a crossbencher.

On the key vote on time-limiting contributory ESA, only one crossbencher voted with the government.

A private bill is not to be confused with a private member's bill, this being a bill introduced by a "backbencher" or a "crossbencher".

One Labour peer admits that, if the abolition of the life and hereditary peerage removes the independent crossbencher, you enter a 'constitutional quagmire'.

Attlee inherited his title following his father's death in 1991 and entered the House of Lords in 1992, initially as a crossbencher.

The crossbencher Lord Owen tabled a motion to set up a special committee, which would spend the next few months studying the constitutional impact of the reforms.

As a member of the House of Lords, he is called "Lord Owen" and sits as a crossbencher.