How to pronounce “cross the floor”

Meaning

• [Verb]
• (UK politics, of a member of a parliament) To vote against one’s own political party in parliament.
• (UK politics, informal, of a member of a parliament) To resign from one’s political party and join another party, resulting in moving from one’s currently assigned desk or seat in the legislative chamber to a new desk or seat physically located with the other members of one’s new party.

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