He couldn't have been more different to Tony Blair, yet John Prescott ended up being our longest serving deputy ...

While the UK is not obliged to have deputy prime ministers, some of the most influential politicians of modern times have had ...

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

Britain's former Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott, who was known among other things for his work on the Kyoto Protocol climate change agreement in 1997, has died in a care home, aged 86, his family ...

The fawning tributes from the Establishment have painted Prescott as a fighter for Old Labour leftism and treated his background and accent as unique eccentricities — two utterly bogus postulations, w ...

LONDON (AP) — British politician John Prescott, a pugnacious and personable former merchant seaman who rose to the post of ...

Amid the slick, middle class polish of New Labour, John Prescott personified a blunt grit; proudly working class, proud of his trades union background, proud to bind his party’s past with its present.

The last time I met John Prescott he said something very rude, and as it turned out, very accurate, about a senior civil ...

John Prescott was a nice man and an underestimated wit. I once worked as a researcher on my late colleague Colin Brown’s ...

Speaking at the Confederation of British Industry ’s ( CBI) annual conference, the chancellor insisted she had “drawn a line ...

Welcome though the news is of the ceasefire in Lebanon, it does nothing to settle the deep-rooted hostilities between Israel and its neighbours.

The praise heaped on John Prescott who died on Wednesday is proof that the job of deputy prime minister is worth having.