Read our privacy notice. John Prescott, former deputy prime minister of the UK between 1997 and 2007, has passed away at the age of 86. Prescott’s family shared the news early on Thursday ...

FORMER Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott has died aged 86 following a battle with Alzheimer's. He had been living in a care home following a stroke in 2019 and passed away "peacefully ...

Tributes have been paid to former Labour deputy prime minister John Prescott, who has died aged 86. Lord Prescott, a former trade union activist and ex-merchant seaman who went on to be a key ...

John Prescott has died at the age of 86, his family revealed today. The former Labour MP and peer passed away to the sound of his favourite jazz music and surrounded with loved-ones at his care ...

LONDON (AP) — British politician John Prescott, a former merchant seaman who rose to the post of deputy prime minister, has died at age 86. Prescott’s family announced his death on Thursday.

She and the couple’s sons said Lord Prescott had died peacefully, “surrounded by the love of his family and the jazz music of Marian Montgomery”. “John spent his life trying to improve the ...

Tributes have been paid to Lord John Prescott, a major figure in Labour politics and the former deputy prime minister, following his death at the age of 86. Known for his blunt, no-nonsense style ...

Hundreds of guests gathered to pay their respects to "true giant of the Labour movement" John Prescott - as friends said it was "amazing" how he dealt with having Alzheimer's. The former Labour ...

It has often been said that Tony Blair used John Prescott – with his working-class, trade-union background and traditional socialist beliefs – as a human shield, to give Blair cover for his ...

John Prescott was a nice man and an underestimated wit. I once worked as a researcher on my late colleague Colin Brown’s biography of him, Fighting Talk, published in 1997, just before Prescott ...

Brandishing a pork pie on a silver tray, John Prescott stood on the stage during his 1995 Labour conference speech and bellowed: "Lies, lies! Porky pies!" It was the defining moment of my stormy ...

John Prescott was an old-style political bruiser who played a vital role in the New Labour project. He scorned what he called "the beautiful people" - the men in smart suits with red roses and ...