The Latest Breaking News from John Prescott

Senior Labour figures urged Tony Blair to delay arrival of EU citizens in UK

Cabinet was split over east European countries joining in 2004, with some ‘extremely concerned’ by its implications

The Guardian - UK · Dec 31, 2024

Blair opened UK borders to east European migrants despite misgivings

Newly released official files lift lid on how ministers expressed concerns over unrestricted access for workers from new EU countries

The Independent UK · Dec 31, 2024

Letters: Lord Prescott obituary

Nick Bailey writes: John Prescott contributed greatly to urban development and regeneration

The Guardian - UK · Dec 18, 2024

John Prescott ‘got a reception like Beatlemania’, Prime Minister says in tribute

Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle led tributes to Lord Prescott, who died last week, calling him a ‘towering figure in the Labour movement and in this House’.

Evening Standard · Nov 25, 2024

UK politics: Badenoch refuses to commit to reversing rise in employers’ national insurance in speech at CBI – as it happened

Tory leader says she will not ‘comment on every bit of micro-policy’

The Guardian - UK · Nov 25, 2024

The John Prescott I knew: Blair’s ‘beautiful people’ tried to erase him – he had other plans

Once frozen out by the New Labour elite, John Prescott fought his way in from the cold to become a loyal deputy leader. Toby Helm recalls a bruising political career

The Guardian - UK · Nov 24, 2024

Why it was such a joy to interview John Prescott and discover his sweet, sad soul

The former deputy prime minister, who died this week, spoke freely and didn’t care what journalists thought of him – he was everything today’s guarded politicians are not

The Guardian - UK · Nov 23, 2024

The Prescott punch: what a 2001 brawl between a deputy prime minister and a voter tells us about the changing nature of British politics

The warm tributes paid to John Prescott, the former deputy prime minister who has died aged 86, reflect a memorable politician of a seemingly bygone era. While his achievements over a long career were vast, the enduring image for most people is of Prescott punching a voter during the 2001…

The Conversation · Nov 22, 2024

Sports quiz of the week: a rapid rise, a record losing run and social media beef

Test your memory of the last seven days in football, boxing, tennis, rugby and more

The Guardian - UK · Nov 22, 2024

‘He was for us’: everyone has anecdotes about John Prescott in his village

Residents of Sutton in Hull remember the former MP and deputy prime minister who became ‘a proper Hully’

The Guardian - UK · Nov 22, 2024