Former deputy prime minister John Prescott has died aged 86 following a battle with Alzheimer’s, his family has announced. His family said he had ‘spent his life trying to improve the lives of ...

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

John Prescott, who rose through Britain’s trade union movement to become one of the country’s best-known politicians, serving as deputy prime minister for a decade, died on Wednesday. He was 86.

Ruskin College, Oxford, has named one of its central teaching spaces The John Prescott Room in honour of the late John ...

LONDON — British politician John Prescott, a pugnacious and personable former merchant seaman who rose to the post of deputy prime minister in Tony Blair's Labour government, has died at age 86.

John Prescott: The Labour firebrand who became Tony Blair’s vital sidekick. 07:40, Alex Croft. A highlight of the lacklustre 2001 general election campaign was the “Prescott punch”.

John Prescott was far from perfect – those closest to him understand that – but the nation, bar the snobs, really liked the guy. He made a lot of sense, actually. More about ...

THIS is the moment political titan John Prescott sensationally punched a protester who threw an egg at him. Former Deputy Minister Prescott has died aged 86 after a battle of Alzheimer’s. He … ...

John Prescott’s guilty secret? He was New Labour’s key moderniser. Despite his fearsome reputation as a fire-breathing lefty, the former deputy prime minister was instrumental in reforming the ...

LONDON (AP) — British politician John Prescott, a pugnacious and personable former merchant seaman who rose to the post of deputy prime minister in Tony Blair’s Labour government, has died at ...

LONDON (AP) — British politician John Prescott, a pugnacious and personable former merchant seaman who rose to the post of deputy prime minister in Tony Blair’s Labour government, has died at ...

LONDON (AP) — British politician John Prescott, a pugnacious and personable former merchant seaman who rose to the post of deputy prime minister in Tony Blair’s Labour government, has died at ...