While Mr Milburn used the post to plot Labour's election campaign, Mr Hutton was charged with chasing up reform and delivery across government.
He entered Parliament in 1945 in Labour's post-war landslide and became Speaker in 1976, a post he held until his retirement seven years later.
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The post was previously held by the Labour Newport East AM John Griffiths.
This article is based in part on a blog post that appeared on Division of Labour in August 2008.
During Labour's first post-war government he entered Parliament as its youngest member.
Labour had reached its lowest post-war ebb in 1983, taking 28% of the vote.
Sir Deian is an historian of the Welsh labour movement and his new post will last for four years.
And with unemployment at record lows and the economy enjoying its longest post-war expansion, poverty and labour rights are not the hot issues they once were.
Mr Davidson is one of two Westminster MPs seeking the new post of Deputy Leader of the Scottish Labour Party, under a new constitution, expected to be agreed at a special conference in Glasgow this weekend.
This Labour seat is based on the post-war new town of East Kilbride south of Glasgow - the oldest in Scotland.
Brian Gibbons (Labour, Aberavon) asked about post office closures in Wales.
The first of a flurry of declarations came at 2243 BST in Sunderland South in record time with Labour expected to pass the winning post of 330 seats shortly.
Mr Brown's third task was to counter the Conservatives' claim that a third-term Labour government will put up taxes in a post-election budget.
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His tactical streetsmarts could add to the government's woes, but Labour peers didn't need him in post to bring consideration of the Parliamentary Voting and Constituencies Bill almost to a halt in January, and the government is clearly worried at the prospect of a repeat performance.
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Mr Fountain's rivals for the Lincolnshire post are Richard Davies (Conservative), Phil Dilks (Labour) and independents David Bowles and Mervyn Barrett.
This helped make possible the pre-election national agreement between the two parties on constitutional reform, and Mr Blair's post-election establishment of a cabinet committee on which both Labour ministers and Lib Dems sit.
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Mr Miliband may be genuniely relaxed about post-devolution policy differences between Westminster and Wales but as Labour MPs voted to cut the EU budget, it's difficult to see the Westminster coalition writing a cheque for the Welsh government.
On that, Labour is silent: such details will be left to the post-election deliberations of a Low Pay Commission, to include representatives from business and the unions.
The irony of the labour market in Japan is that, despite unemployment being near a post-war record, Japanese companies will soon face a shortage of young workers.
MPs, it seems clear from these post-referendum eruptions that a bit of thuggery was the only way to keep Labour's splits hidden from view during the campaign.
Leanne Wood (Plaid Cymru, South Wales Central) asked the First Minister to express disgust at Labour MPs who voted for the closure and are now campaigning to keep post offices open areas.
He upset some within the Labour group by standing against another of his party's AMs for the post of assembly deputy presiding officer, and winning.
By breaking the post-war consensus and emasculating the unions, she paved the way for a new Labour Party more in tune with the British electorate and less in hock to the union bosses.
The launch linking Labour leaders at both Westminster and the assembly underlines the difficult balancing act facing politicians post-devolution.
Higher vocational education is a new post-secondary education form which leads directly to employment and corresponds to the needs of the labour market.
His appointment prompted David Miliband, the former Labour Party Member of Parliament whose parents fled the Nazis, to immediately resign his post as a club director.
It must have been all the sweeter for him because after Labour's 1997 landslide after he was unceremoniously dumped by Tony Blair from his post as a junior spokesperson on Welsh affairs.
David Cameron is likely to paint a rather different picture of Labour's stewardship of the economy, blaming them for presiding over the biggest post-war budget deficit and potentially putting at risk Britain's international credit rating.
Scottish Labour's amendment calling for an early retirement scheme for older teachers, creating posts for post-probationary teachers was passed with 59 votes for it, 47 votes against and with 15 abstentions.
Until then, two parties, National and Labour, had had a stranglehold on politics in New Zealand in a first-past-the-post system.
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