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former labor Deputy Prime Minister Lord
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John Prescott has died aged 86 here's
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everything you need to know in 60
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seconds or less Prescott was born to a
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workingclass family in Wales and as a
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Young Man worked on ships and as a trade
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unionist he was elected as labor MP for
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Hall East in 1970 and went on to be
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elected Deputy leader of the labor party
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which he served under Tony Blair in the
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new labor government from 1997 to 2007
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Prescott was a colal character
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representing Labor's old Traditional
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Values around the new labor cabinet
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table and keeping the party in touch
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with it working-class and trade unionist
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rots he did create controversy most
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famously when he punched a man who threw
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an egg on him in North Wales in 2001
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tributes have poured into to Lord
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Prescott this morning including from
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former Prime Minister Tony Blair current
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prime minister cir starma and former
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cabinet colleague Lord Peter mandelson
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Cammy badok leader of the conservative
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party also called John Prescot one of
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the titans of British politics in the
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1990s what do you make of the tributes
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to John Prescot let us know in the
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