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Former trade union activist, who had Alzheimer’s, died peacefully at care home, says family

The Labour former prime minister’s voice quavered as he paid tribute to his deputy prime minister, who has died aged 86.

The former trade union activist died ‘peacefully’ and surrounded by relatives at his care home, his family said.

John Prescott was a formidable campaigner who took his party’s message on the road to its heartlands at a time of change for the movement.

The ex-deputy prime minister was a key figure in Tony Blair’s modernisation project – only to later distance himself from his legacy.

Alan Milburn said the NHS needs to be weaned off what he said was a ‘more, more, more’ culture

Ask two Blairites when the New Labour project died, and you might get three different answers. The first is June 2007, when Tony Blair stood down as prime minister. The second is May 2008, when the party ran a class-based (and unsuccessful) campaign at the Crewe and Nantwich by-election. While…

Sir Tony Blair discusses peace-making, Brexit and Keir Starmer’s premiership in wide-ranging London Standard interview

From the Tories’ Thatcher fixation to Labour’s Blair fetish, ideas from the past are poisoning the political present