The pugnacious political heavy weight of the new Labour project has died at 86. He had been suffering from Alzheimer’s for a number of years. He was famous for his mangled sentences. One day after returning after a foreign trip he rather unwisely said to awaiting journalists “it’s great to be back on terracotta” as opposed to ‘terra firma’. He famously hit a chap - who threw an egg at him in the 2001 election. He was at one point a steward in the merchant navy and on one occasion in the House of Commons - Nichols Soames, the grandson of Sir Winston Churchill, said very loudly in his baritone voice “garçon”. This exchange brought the House of Commons into great peals of laughter. Prescott, a working class background - that eventually made it to becoming deputy prime minister to Tony Blair. A genuinely - one off.
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