John Prescott
John Prescott
John Leslie Prescott, Baron Prescottis a British politician who was the Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007. Born in Prestatyn, Wales, he represented Hull East as the Labour member of parliament from 1970 to 2010. In the 1994 leadership election, he stood for both Leader and Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, winning election to the latter office. He was appointed Deputy Prime Minister after Labour's victory in the 1997 election, with an expanded brief...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth31 May 1938
We are making the fundamental changes. It was like the decent housing target. We said by 2010, we'd have taken a million houses and refurbished them into decent housing.
Our primary responsibility ... is to do everything possible to provide the highest level of protection to the public.
Refurbishing I've done in the first three years and I'm still giving housing money, of course, to the north.
He was a principled foreign secretary, he was reforming leader of the house and even when he resigned regretfully from the government he did on principle he did it with style and elegance,
I haven't seen the letter and I think it would be terrible if it was done that way,
I didn't say the lady was tired. She constantly said it herself, ... She was too tired to take in all the complexities. I quoted her words.
By entering the entry negotiations, Turkey also enters into obligations in regard to recognizing all the countries within the EU and the obligations Ankara has signed up to.
He also made an enormous contribution to British politics in opposition and in government,
Governments are never loved ... when you have been eight years in government there is always something people aren't happy with.
I don't think he is welcome by many people in this country, is he? ... But at the moment he has the right to come in and out. ... It's a democracy, not a dictatorship, for God's sake.
The choice is not normally between the north and south. It might be between Britain and Europe.
I'm not a fancy rapier man-more of a broadsword. Not for me the flesh wound. I prefer to take the head off.
All I could feel was this warm liquid running down my neck. You automatically think it's blood, it's all in split seconds, so I decided to say I didn't agree with him.
My roots, my background and the way I act is working class, but it would be hypsocritical to say I'm anything else than middle class now.