Former trade union activist and key figure of Tony Blair’s New Labour project has died at care home surrounded by family
Times radio breakfast host Stig Abel described Prescott on X as, “One of the most colourful, memorable politicians of our lifetimes. A man everyone can conjure in their minds immediately, and you can’t say that about many politicians any more.”
Born in Prestatyn in Wales on 31 May 1938 the son of a railwayman, Prescott left school at the age of 15 to work as a trainee chef and then as a steward on the Cunard Line before entering politics.
