But former MSP Wendy Alexander says she found herself an "obvious target" during what she describes as the Scottish ...

Last week I wanted to travel the 100 miles from Hull to Manchester by train for a timely debate on English devolution and what it meant for the North. The train I had to take would have taken me 2 ...

John Prescott, the pugnacious deputy prime minister to Britain's Tony Blair during his 10 years in government, has died aged 86 after a battle with Alzheimer's, his family said on Thursday. World ...

Prescott was MP for Kingston upon Hull East for 40 years and served as Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and as First Secretary of State from 2001 to 2007. He died age ...

Former Prime Minister Tony Blair, right, and his deputy John Prescott. | Scott Barbour/Getty Images. Out of office, Blair only became more confident in attacking Whitehall, saying there was a “genuine ...

Carney, a former central banker, won the leadership race on March 9 on the first ballot with 85.9 percent of the nearly 152,000 votes. Coming in second was former Deputy Prime Minister and ...

The 'Prescott punch' ... In 2001, a protester smashed an egg onto the British Deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott ... United Kingdom; Advertisement. Most recent. 18-06-2025 ...

Nightingale, who first broadcast on the BBC in 1963 as a panellist on Juke Box Jury, remained Radio 1’s only female DJ until 1982, when Janice Long joined, and was credited with helping to pave ...

Mr Tengbo with former Prime Minister Theresa May and ... a delegation to China in 2010 alongside former deputy PM John Prescott, ... is seeking to exert influence here in the United Kingdom." ...

By the 1990s, the Labour Party had started electing both its leader and deputy leader. Prescott stood for both jobs. While he was comfortably defeated by Tony Blair for prime minister, he beat ...

While he was comfortably defeated by Tony Blair for prime minister, he beat Margaret Beckett for deputy. Prescott became DPM almost automatically when Labour took power in 1997.

"Giant", "titan", "the Labour Party could never have won three consecutive terms without John". The praise heaped on John Prescott who died on Wednesday is proof that the job of deputy prime minister ...