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
I'm not a fancy rapier man-more of a broadsword. Not for me the flesh wound. I prefer to take the head off.
I'm kind of on the fence. On one hand it's easy to take it and be done with it. But on the other hand, it sends the wrong message to my daughter.
Enjoy your holiday make it a long one,
I want to be a champion of your industry.
It was a terrible tragedy that that young lad was killed but ... an independent inquiry is underway. Let us wait for the facts,
It is totally unacceptable that Britain could be held to ransom in this kind of blockade raising out of a dispute in France.
It's not moving as fast as we'd hoped it would,
The objectives remain the same and indeed that has been made clear by the Prime Minister in a speech yesterday that the objectives are clear and the one about the removal of the Taliban is not something we have as a clear objective to implement but it is possible a consequence that will flow from the Taliban clearly giving protection to Bin Laden and the UN resolution made it absolutely clear that anyone that finds them in that position declares themselves an enemy and that clearly is a matter for these objectives.
First of all, in our first period of office, we were concerned about the renovation of all those old properties you talked about.
I see this fella built like a barn door... and there's all these fox hunters, who didn't like me, screaming and shouting and as I walked past him I looked at him and he hit me with something.
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.
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.
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.