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
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.
I've gone through that with my mother and father and here I was in a similar situation. I've wronged her and I've wronged the family. Because when these things happen, it doesn't just happen to you, it happens to the people around you and the family.
I don't get a fair whack, I don't pursue vendettas or punch people on the nose.
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.
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.
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.
Well, if she said she couldn't understand the deal, how could she know that it was a bad deal?
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.
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,