John Prescott was a merchant seaman who dropped out of school but thrived in politics by bringing working-class credibility to the modernising government of former British prime minister Tony ...

A highlight of the lacklustre 2001 general election campaign was the “Prescott punch”. John Prescott, Labour’s deputy prime minister, was incensed by a protester who hit him with an egg.

Lawyers were today deciding whether Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott should be prosecuted for punching a protester during the general election campaign. The Crown Prosecution Service was ...

Detectives investigating the politically embarrassing brawl between Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott and a protester ... throwing incident followed by a punch-up. 'It's like a cloud hanging ...

Whether a former deputy Prime Minister infamous for throwing a punch, to a Scottish independence ... been more different to Tony Blair, yet John Prescott ended up being our longest serving deputy ...