Term of office for membership of Labour's National Policy Forum (NPF) extended from two years to four, or from one general election to the next (whichever is longer).
Remarkably, in five years of office, Labour has not suffered a single resignation by a cabinet minister.
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Only in the dying days of office in 1979 does Labour lose the vote of confidence that ushers in a general election and 18 years of opposition.
Sources have told the BBC that the door of an office used by Labour staff was forced, and that it follows a spate of laptop thefts around the House of Commons.
In just over two years of office, New Labour has already introduced a dozen constitutional bills.
That marked the start of a spending spree that has carried on throughout Labour's second term of office.
The bureaucratic screw-ups of the late Blair imperium, mostly in the Home Office, had threatened to revive an old caricature of Labour incompetence.
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The pensions industry worries that the new proposals may undermine the successes of existing private pensions, already burdened by increases in taxation since Labour took office as well as by the legacy of the mis-selling scandal.
Ministers had been briefed with a list of what Central Office would headline 'Labour failures' in Wales.
It also included the address of the Cambridge Labour Party office and a small Animal Liberation Front (ALF) logo.
In 1996-97, the year before Labour took office, the number of children living in poverty was 4.4m.
The opponents to the plans met outside the office of Health Minister Lesley Griffiths who is the Labour AM for Wrexham.
And higher income-tax rates, as favoured by Mr Edmonds, were ruled out for the duration of this parliament before Labour took office.
For most of Labour's time in office, real interest rates have been around the level they were when it came to power.
This is the first Labour administration to take office since the introduction of the select committees two decades ago, and it is not clear how tolerant of their interference it will be.
He won office in 2008 with the help of Liberal Democrat and even Labour voters fed up with Mr Livingstone (then the two-term incumbent), as well as by increasing turnout among suburban Tories who had seen the mayor as a remote metropolitan, focused on inner London.
Given their contribution to the economy, the labour department has a special office to take care of them.
It is bankrolled by some of the main labour unions, and its head office is in a union building.
The pound's protracted strength while Labour has been in office reflected an exceptional decade of sustained growth and low inflation.
One recent poll gave the rival centre-left coalition of Fine Gael and Labour, which last held office in 1997, a nine-point lead over the government.
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Lord Kinnock's office said he had already accepted an invitation to the funeral of former Labour councillor Olga Griffiths.
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Two days later a device was delivered to Labour politician Ms Godman's constituency office in Bridge of Weir, Renfrewshire.
Mr Smith was certainly the favourite to succeed Peter Hain, seen as the man from the next generation of Welsh Labour who would take the fight to the Wales Office.
The Treasury signalled this direction of travel before the election, when Labour was holding on to office by its fingertips.
The witnesses are the Culture Secretary Maria Miller, Cabinet Office policy guru Oliver Letwin, and Harriet Harman, the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party.
Wales Office minister Stephen Crabb also criticised the timing of the debate, noting that no Labour MPs raised the issue of food banks until May 2010.
Conservative shadow Cabinet Office minister Oliver Heald condemned the use of taxpayers' money to "do the Labour Party's dirty work" and said public funds should not be spent on "helping them cook up new policies".
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Perhaps Mr Cameron is still working his way down the Plaid shopping list but the prime minister faces the sort of mathematical challenges that scuppered Labour's attempt to cling onto office after the 2010 general election.
Despite Mr Sarkozy's campaign talk of a rupture with the past, on almost every measure, from the reform of universities to pensions to the labour market, his reforms in office have turned out to be half-hearted.
Anger is leavened by memories of the City's contribution to Labour's spending splurge in office.
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