In 2010, Conservative frontbencher David Willetts, born in the late 1950s, tackled the subject in his book The Pinch.
It retained St Helens with former Tory frontbencher Shaun Woodward while former minister Peter Mandelson was re-elected in Hartlepool.
Liberal Democrat frontbencher Ed Davey said the Tories had failed to make inroads in cities such as Manchester and Liverpool.
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Labour frontbencher Andy Burnham has also welcomed the disclosure, saying it was one of the "biggest injustices of the 20th Century".
Days later, he faced tough questions after the arrest of Tory frontbencher Damian Green by officers investigating leaks from the Home Office.
Conservative frontbencher William Hague said the prime minister and cabinet were "weakened" and Britain was "crying out" for an immediate general election.
But Labour frontbencher Lord McKenzie of Luton demanded that the legislation should have a normal committee stage, report stage and third reading.
Were Mrs James to have edged the Conservatives into third place, Labour frontbencher Maria Eagle said there would be "meltdown in the Conservative party".
Labour frontbencher Stephen Timms argued that Mr Duncan Smith's plans to tighten the rules on claiming benefits would make the implementation of universal credit even more "chaotic".
Mr Bell said action was needed because "not a single frontbencher who has been named and shamed by The Daily Telegraph has lost his or her job".
He hit back at claims in October by Labour frontbencher Chris Bryant that the cuts would have the effect of "sociologically cleansing" poorer people from expensive parts of the country.
The Labour frontbencher warned the plan would "corrupt university admissions with a two tier system - one for the best qualified applicants, another for those with access to fatter cheque books".
Conservative frontbencher James Gray instead argued voters would be puzzled why so much time was being wasted on hunting when soldiers were dying in Iraq and the NHS was in "crisis".
But Tory frontbencher Baroness Neville-Jones said only that the opposition "still believe" in its alternative proposals, indicating that there could be room for compromise in the little time remaining before the general election.
The issue was raised again later on by Labour frontbencher Gloria De Piero, who told the Commons that much of the vandalism, anti-social behaviour and theft from war memorials was related to the illegal metal trade.
On 25 October 2010, Baroness Noakes, a former Conservative frontbencher, said that according to an independent report published this summer, the head of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) should already have left his post.
This could solve a headache for Mr Balls, whose existing marginal Morley and Outwood seat is being broken up and potentially faced a selection battle with fellow frontbencher Hilary Benn for another seat in the area.
But in the detailed Committee Stage consideration last week, Luciana Berger (a Co-operative MP and Labour frontbencher) put down a series of amendments designed to help cooperatives and mutual societies offering insulation and other improvements to become players in the market, including reduced registration fees for non-profit organisations.
Michael Gove, now a Tory frontbencher and key David Cameron ally, and Tom Baldwin, in The Times, said Mr Duncan Smith had been "steady under fire" and his shadow cabinet appointments - derided by modernisers for bringing in eurosceptics and right wingers - were starting to bear fruit.
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