John Prescott, Britain's longest-serving deputy prime minister who died on Wednesday, was indispensable to Tony Blair's New ...

The BBC's political editor for Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, Tim Iredale, described Prescott as a "man of the people". Karl ...

He was a cruise ship waiter before rising in the trade union movement and becoming one of the country’s best-known Labour ...

John Prescott was a merchant seaman who dropped out of school but thrived in politics by bringing working-class credibility ...