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
It does sound not a very sensitive way to deal with such a difficult matter.
Our primary responsibility ... is to do everything possible to provide the highest level of protection to the public.
First of all, in our first period of office, we were concerned about the renovation of all those old properties you talked 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.
From 1997 when we came in, you guys and the public bought seven million more cars. You didn't get rid of the second car, did you? So what is happening is the growth of cars on the motorway.
By entering the entry negotiations, Turkey also enters into obligations in regard to recognizing all the countries within the EU and the obligations Ankara has signed up to.
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.
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.
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,
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.
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.
At present there are more Tory candidates than I've had hot dinners - and you can see I have had a few,
I didn't say the lady was tired. She constantly said it herself, ... She was too tired to take in all the complexities. I quoted her words.
Legislation in itself will not end the dispute, but it is prudent to take these powers to use if necessary to help reach an agreement.