Commenting on the egg incident, he added ... John wasn’t going to turn the other cheek. That was John, that was his background." In 2019, Prescott told The Guardian: "When I do die, after ...

The farmworker sensationally punched by John Prescott today reveals his ... Mr Evans, who threw the egg that provoked the Prescott attack, faces police action. But his claim will intensify ...

none more so than in 2001 when the former boxer punched a protester who threw an egg at him on the election campaign trail.

The late John Prescott, deputy PM in the Blair govt, once floored a protester with a neat left hook, after being pelted with an egg. He later remarked that he’d much rather be punched than egged.