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
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have a great deal in common and a lot to discuss.
There is no doubt that Tony Blair is acting in a very courageous way and is doing what he believes to be right and we are supporting him in that,
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.
It does sound not a very sensitive way to deal with such a difficult matter.
That's what I think regions are about, making central government more accountable and fairer.
The choice is not normally between the north and south. It might be between Britain and Europe.
I want to be a champion of your industry.
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.
What government has been doing, we've got major programmes now, of billions of pounds, which are directed by central government into these areas of deprivation.
Well, if she said she couldn't understand the deal, how could she know that it was a bad deal?
At present there are more Tory candidates than I've had hot dinners - and you can see I have had a few,
At the moment he has the right to come in and go out,
You go down some street - no doubt it's there, and we have to do something about it, and our programmes are designed to do that - but if that's a picture of Newcastle, it's not the one I recognise and I bet none in the North East do either.