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.
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.
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 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.
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.
Enjoy your holiday make it a long one,
First of all, in our first period of office, we were concerned about the renovation of all those old properties you talked about.
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.
That's what I think regions are about, making central government more accountable and fairer.
It does sound not a very sensitive way to deal with such a difficult matter.
We've given more resources. On housing, we are now establishing a regional housing pot.
have a great deal in common and a lot to discuss.