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 ...

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.

Former deputy prime minister John Prescott has died at the age of 86, his family has announced. The former trade union activist and Labour veteran died “peacefully” at his care home following ...

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.

A highlight of the lacklustre 2001 general election campaign was the “Prescott punch”. John Prescott, Labour’s deputy prime minister, was incensed by a protester who hit him with an egg.

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 ...

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 ...

It has often been said that Tony Blair used John Prescott – with his working-class, trade-union background and traditional socialist beliefs – as a human shield, to give Blair cover for his ...