John Prescott

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• Ed Balls defends Miliband’s conference speech and mansion tax plan

  5 Oct 2014: Shadow chancellor agrees omission of deficit was a mistake but says Labour leader gave a 10 out of 10 performance

• Ed Miliband under fire from senior Labour figures as Tories take poll lead

  5 Oct 2014: Prescott accuses party leader of being ‘far too timid’ while Tony Blair’s chief fundraiser tells him to be more friendly to business

• John Prescott says UK should stay out of Isis 'regional dispute'

  27 Sep 2014:

  Former deputy prime minister urges all parties to think again over air strikes in Iraq and says history is repeating itself

• John Prescott gets soaked at the Brit Awards

  24 Sep 2014: Having been ambushed by the band in the 1990s, Prescott has called Labour’s Chuka Umunna ‘Chumbawamba’. Here’s how the Guardian reported Prescott’s drenching at the 1998 Brits

• John Prescott dismisses Labour’s Chuka Umunna as ‘Chumbawamba’

  24 Sep 2014: Former deputy prime minister likens shadow business secretary to band who drenched him with water at 1998 Brit awards

• Government's £50m travel-planning website, Transport Direct, to close

  12 Sep 2014: The site was the brainchild of John Prescott, who said the DfT's decision to close it down was a sign of 'Google-it government'

• Glasgow pulls no punches in welcome to 'Save the Union Express'

  11 Sep 2014:

  Labour MPs, councillors and advisers from London disembark in Scottish city to cheers of 'rubbish, lies, excrement!'

  • Live updates from the Scotland independence battle

• Scottish referendum: Brown and Prescott to rally Labour voters

  4 Sep 2014:

  Former PM and deputy leader will lead party rallies in key areas after poll finds third of Labour voters now back independence

• John Prescott: Alan Johnson should run Labour's election campaign

  12 Jul 2014: Former Labour deputy leader says Ed Miliband needs someone who can relate to people in the north and the south

• World premiere for One Rogue Reporter, the movie exposé of tabloids

  12 May 2014:

  Rich Peppiatt turns his stage show into a film

• Ed Miliband: Labour-union reforms will 'let people back into our politics'

  31 Jan 2014:

  Labour leader says opt-in for membership will create party of 400,000 engaged people 'representing Britain's beating heart'

• UK's big six energy firms are getting involved in politics, says John Prescott

  29 Jan 2014: Former deputy PM says energy suppliers have been encouraged by David Cameron's alleged promise to 'get rid of green crap'

• John Prescott leaves the 21st century behind in Cuba

  25 Jan 2014:

  Half a century ago, Fidel Castro put paid to the politician's plans to visit Cuba. Now, at last, he has made it

• Simon Hoggart: Radio 4's PM pays him a special tribute

  6 Jan 2014:

  Actor reads excerpts of his inimitable parliamentary sketches

• Prescott, Blair, Straw – the next generation of UK politics?

  29 Nov 2013: David Prescott is one of many with familiar surnames hoping to make it into parliament. Emine Saner looks at our Westminster dynasties and what they say about politics today

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