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
Enjoy your holiday make it a long one,
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.
I haven't seen the letter and I think it would be terrible if it was done that way,
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 want to be a champion of your industry.
Life is better under the Tories' sounds like a Steve Norris chat up line
Refurbishing I've done in the first three years and I'm still giving housing money, of course, to the north.
It was a terrible tragedy that that young lad was killed but ... an independent inquiry is underway. Let us wait for the facts,
At the moment he has the right to come in and go out,
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.
So what I did was stuff my face with anything around, any old rubbish, burgers, chocolate, crisps, fish and chips, loads of it, till I felt sick - but at least I'd had the pleasure of stuffing my face and feeling really full.
I have only been seeking to get them to the negotiating table and, thank God, that's where they are.
Down in the south, it's how we find the brownfield sites without taking too much land take to meet the tremendous demand for housing, and that's what I've done.
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.