Mon. December 15, 2008
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Yorkshire Post
December 15, 2008
John Prescott gave devolution in Northern
England a shot in 2003, pushing for regional assemblies. But in a referendum the North-East utterly rejected his ...
The Star
December 15, 2008
FORMER Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott visited Sheffield to tell young people what the Government is doing to help them. The MP hosted a packed meeting ...
New Statesman
December 11, 2008
Just as John Prescott gave Blair some cover on the left, so Mandelson gives Brown protection on the right of the party. It is a brilliant silencing tactic: ...
guardian.co.uk
December 11, 2008
John Prescott stormed out during a speech by Leon Brittan when Leon was home secretary and talking about picket-line violence during the miners' strike. ...
Daily Mail
December 8, 2008
John Prescott (Lab, Hull E) put in a rare appearance and sidled up to Speaker Mick for a laff 'n' a chat. Dobson (Lab, Holborn) casually suggested that ...
The Sun
December 8, 2008
By KEVIN SHOESMITH PORTLY MP John Prescott is throwing his weight behind a £500000 fat clinic for older men. The former Deputy PM and self-confessed food ...
Yorkshire Post
December 8, 2008
This was exemplified when Phil Woolas, the Immigration Minister and a protege of one John Prescott, told the Today programme a day after Mr Green's arrest ...
guardian.co.uk
December 5, 2008
Hain was the most visible early runner to succeed John Prescott as Labour's deputy leader but his campaign misfired. Most Welsh MPs backed him but he ...
The Sun
December 5, 2008
We depend on the Commons Speaker to defend Parliament. Mr Martin, a John Prescott in ermine, is no longer fit for purpose.
This is London
December 2, 2008
It was also in this Hungarian restaurant in Soho that
Tony Blair was persuaded to run for Parliament in 1982. Some brave Tories have been spotted inside, ...
Nigerian Muse
December 1, 2008
If BBC is hideously white, the
British Parliament is obscenely more so and shamelessly racist and patriarchal. British parliament is a treacherous, ...
guardian.co.uk
December 1, 2008
Christopher Galley, the 26-year-old junior Home Office civil servant at the centre of the row over the arrest of Tory MP Damian Green, ...
Times Online
November 29, 2008
Lexington Communications, whose founding partner is Mike Craven, a former adviser to John Prescott, is among the firms hired by the Heritage Lottery Fund, ...
guardian.co.uk
November 29, 2008
John Prescott thinks they're fat. With this in mind, have a read of Hazel Blears' latest article on the subject. Given that Hazel Blears is a corporation ...
Daily Mail
November 28, 2008
The arrest of Damian Green, almost certainly with the prior knowledge of Michael Martin, the Labour MP who is Speaker of the House of Commons, and probably ...
Hull Daily Mail
November 26, 2008
However, Hull East MP John Prescott, speaking on behalf of the three Labour Humber MPs, yesterday told the Mail local authorities would not be forced to ...
Bexhill Observer
November 26, 2008
A somewhat heated discussion developed from 'Did you see that John Prescott programme on the class system?' For me the programme sadly demonstrated that if ...
Times Online
November 23, 2008
Take this description of John Prescott, to whom he first talked (in 1994!). "I try to imagine this man in a senior office of state or equate him with some ...
Hull Daily Mail
November 21, 2008
Hull East MP
John Prescott announced he was going to be a granddad for the first time, as he opened a new
children's centre in the city. ...
Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph
November 18, 2008
MP Phil Hope said: "I was shocked to hear the very sad news about John Wood-Cowling. "John was a real champion for Corby and always spoke up for what be ...
UK Express
November 17, 2008
"This whole issue can be traced back to the former Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott's obsession with imposing targets to build new traveller camps, ...
guardian.co.uk
November 15, 2008
On the subject of
politicians and TV, if
John Prescott takes up any of the offers following his documentaries about class, it'll be a U-turn. ...
Hull Daily Mail
November 12, 2008
Hull East MP
John Prescott has spoken out about his personal experience of
diabetes ahead of World Diabetes Day on Friday. The former deputy prime minister ...
Coventry Telegraph
November 11, 2008
WHEN John Prescott's memoirs were serialised in the Sunday Times in April he admitted for the first time that he had suffered with an eating disorder. ...
Politics.co.uk
November 11, 2008
Nevertheless, under his predecessor
Tony Blair it was Brown, a Scotsman, and
John Prescott, a Welshman, who tried by every means possible to balkanise ...
The Herald
November 11, 2008
Yet there is still time for Edward Stourton and John Prescott to find common ground. Who knows, when next they confront each other on Today, could they be ...
Daily Mail
November 9, 2008
Mr Wallace said his group had carried out research showing that the regional development quangos - set up and championed by John Prescott - either hadn't ...
Daily Mail
November 9, 2008
The Land Registry does not reveal the size of the
London mortgage, also from Lloyds TSB, but it does show he bought the flat in the Parliament View ...
Norfolk Eastern Daily Press
November 8, 2008
Six months after her death, the then deputy prime minister John Prescott revealed his own battle with bulimia and pushed for a study into the number of ...
Halesowen News
November 8, 2008
Leader of the House of Commons Harriet Harman might get blasted for her dowdy dressing style, and Labour MP Hazel Blears condemned for looking dated, ...
Telegraph.co.uk
November 8, 2008
Is this really the upper class that makes John Prescott feel so inferior? Concluding its two-part outing, Prescott: The Class System and Me (BBC2, ...
Press and Journal
November 7, 2008
Former deputy prime minister
John Prescott welcomed the
Bank of England's move while on a visit to Aberdeen. "It is quite remarkable and a step in the right ...
guardian.co.uk
November 6, 2008
She meant that knuckle-dragger standing next to you, the one with the half brick and a chip the size of John Prescott. And Guido Fawkes, whom she identifies ...
BirminghamMail.net
November 6, 2008
John Prescott, the former Deputy Prime Minister, is presenting programmes on BBC2 which argue class still plays a deciding role in who makes it to the top ...
Halifax Evening Courier
November 5, 2008
Calder Valley MP Chris McCafferty said eating disorders need to be discussed more. She said people like John Prescott and Princess Diana had helped by ...
Evening Telegraph
November 5, 2008
Labour candidate Lindsay Roy has welcomed former deputy Prime Minister John Prescott to the constituency to bolster his campaign, while SNP candidate Peter ...
Reading Evening Post
November 5, 2008
Far from his day-job as the MP for Hull, he's presented a two-part television series - with his wife, no less - examining the state of the British class ...
Times Online
November 5, 2008
Outside a butcher's shop in Glenrothes, John Prescott is seeking to bend the arc of history, while modestly soaking up praise for his new television series ...
Northern Echo
November 4, 2008
Former Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott claimed £6707.06 to cover external repairs to his constituency home in Hull in 2005, including replacing windows ...
Telegraph.co.uk
November 4, 2008
The Central Fife seat in the Scottish Parliament, now contested on different boundaries, was won last year by the SNP. Jim Murphy, the Scottish Secretary, ...
