The Deputy Prime Minister should be deployed as a John Prescott figure to connect with the party, Labour MPs say ...

John Prescott: The Labour firebrand who became Tony Blair’s vital sidekick 07:40, Alex Croft. A highlight of the lacklustre 2001 general election campaign was the “Prescott punch”.

A highlight of the lacklustre 2001 general election campaign was the “Prescott punch”. John Prescott, Labour’s deputy prime minister, was incensed by a protester who hit him with an egg.

John Prescott became a Labour frontbench spokesman in May 1979 and joined the shadow cabinet in 1983, gaining a reputation as a pugnacious and knowledgeable spokesman on transport.

Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Former Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott speaks in support of Jeremy Corbyn, leader of Britain's opposition Labour Party, at a campaign event in Scarborough, May 22, 2017.

John Prescott’s guilty secret? He was New Labour’s key moderniser. Despite his fearsome reputation as a fire-breathing lefty, the former deputy prime minister was instrumental in reforming the ...

John Prescott, who served as Deputy Prime Minister and Labour MP for four decades, died peacefully on Wednesday at a care home where he had been living with Alzheimer's ...

Tributes have flooded in after the family of John Prescott announced his death, aged 86, from complications arising from Alzheimer's disease. From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News ...

Former Labour prime minister Tony Blair pays tribute to John Prescott A lthough we all knew that the end was approaching and was inevitable, I am devastated by John’s passing.

John Prescott served as Deputy PM from 1997 to 2007 as a member of the Labour Party Credit: North News and Pictures , Newcastle NE1 5JE 7 Prescott with his beloved wife Pauline Credit: PA ...

John Prescott became a Labour frontbench spokesman in May 1979 and joined the shadow cabinet in 1983, gaining a reputation as a pugnacious and knowledgeable spokesman on transport.

John Prescott obituary: The Labour firebrand who became Tony Blair’s vital sidekick. 09:34, Dennis Kavanagh, Joe Middleton, David Maddox.