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
Why can't we, with a more intelligent policy, actually have houses that are affordable, built at higher densities than they are at the moment and built on brownfield sites.
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,
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.
We believe the 36, nearly 40, billion pound discount given for a right to buy houses took a million houses out of the public housing sector which is desperately needed for rent.
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.
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,
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?
Most Tories seem to think that 'ethics' is a county near Middlesex
I love coming to Tories' seats and roughing them up... that is what elections are about.
So if you look at the money we've given, we've actually still given more in fact in housing to the north than they had the years before.
She's not forgiven me, but we have a wonderful life from our family and that's the nature and quality of that woman that she can say that.
Life is better under the Tories' sounds like a Steve Norris chat up line