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 longest serving British Deputy Prime Minister, has died at the age of 86. In a statement, Prescott's family announced the ex-Labour politician, who had been living with ...

By Stephen Castle Reporting from London 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 ...

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 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 has died at the age of 86, his family revealed today. The former Labour MP and peer passed away to the sound of his favourite jazz music and surrounded with loved-ones at his care ...

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.

John Prescott was a nice man and an underestimated wit. I once worked as a researcher on my late colleague Colin Brown’s biography of him, Fighting Talk, published in 1997, just before Prescott ...

John Prescott was never short of a word or two - and while they could sometimes become a bit jumbled, he never minced them either. The former Labour deputy prime minister, who died yesterday aged ...

UK's John Prescott: the Bridge Who Held Old and New Labour Together for Tony Blair By Kate Holton LONDON (Reuters) - John Prescott, Britain's longest-serving deputy prime minister who died on ...

Although we all knew that the end was approaching and was inevitable, I am devastated by John’s passing. He was one of the most talented people I ever encountered in politics; one of the most ...

The uproar briefly looked like it might harm the Labour Party, and Prescott’s career. But Blair’s response -– “John is John” -– cemented his folksy status. “Many of us, all across ...