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* {{note|bbc}} BBC News [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4402834.stm Profile: John Hutton], November 3, 2005
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* {{note|bbc}} BBC News [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4402834.stm "Profile: John Hutton"], November 3, 2005
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* {{note|bbc2}} BBC News [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/mpdb/html/15.stm "John Hutton"], February 10, 2005
  
 
* {{note|times}}''The Times'', "The Nuclear Cabinet", November 23, 2005; not accessable online
 
* {{note|times}}''The Times'', "The Nuclear Cabinet", November 23, 2005; not accessable online
  
 
[[category:Pro-nuclear individuals|Hutton, John]]
 
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Background

Hutton was educated at Westcliff High School for Boys, in Essex, and Magdalen College, Oxford. He became a law lecturer at Northumbria University, before being elected the MP for Barrow and Furness in 1992. He is a friend and former flatmate of key Blair ally Alan Milburn. He is now the Work and Pensions Secretary. [1]

Pro-Nuclear Defender

Seen as a keen defender of local industries including Britain's nuclear Trident programme [2]. Described by The Times as a "Champion of the nuclear industry" within the Cabinet. [3]

External Links

  • ^The Times, "The Nuclear Cabinet", November 23, 2005; not accessable online