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Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott
John Prescott MP was born May 31, 1938. He is a British Labour Party politician, Deputy Prime Minister, First Secretary of State and Member of Parliament for the north east constituency of Hull East. He became Deputy Leader of the Labour... [more]
John Prescott MP was born May 31, 1938. He is a British Labour Party politician, Deputy Prime Minister, First Secretary of State and Member of Parliament for the north east constituency of Hull East. He became Deputy Leader of the Labour Party after coming second in the Labour leadership election in 1994 and was appointed Deputy Prime Minister after Labour's landslide victory in the 1997 General Election.
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John Prescott, the Deputy Prime Minister, described the circumstances of Saddam Hussein's execution as "quite deplorable" and "totally unacceptable" yesterday.
Mobile phone footage showed Saddam being taunted moments before his death by people attending his hanging, while he mocks their "bravery". The film has been an embarrassment for America and Britain, as well as the Iraqi Government, which has begun an inquiry because of it.
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John Prescott, the Deputy Prime Minister, described the circumstances of Saddam Hussein's execution as "quite deplorable" and "totally unacceptable" yesterday.
Mobile phone footage showed Saddam being taunted moments before his death by people attending his hanging, while he mocks their "bravery". The film has been an embarrassment for America and Britain, as well as the Iraqi Government, which has begun an inquiry because of it.
John Prescott, the former deputy prime minister, has defended China against
claims that it was responsible for the failure to secure a legally binding
deal at the Copenhagen climate change talks.
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With China receiving much blame for the failure to produce a binding agreement at the Copenhagen climate change conference, former deputy prime minister of Great Britain John Prescott has defended China’s role in the talks. From the Guardian:
The former deputy prime minister helped negotiate the Kyoto protocol in 1997, and was in Copenhagen acting as [...]
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From chinadigitaltimes.net
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• Former deputy PM attacks US envoy's stance at talks• Negotiator at Kyoto rejects Obama's view of 1997 dealJohn Prescott has defended China's role in the climate change summit, saying the blame for its flawed outcome must lie with the United States and Barack Obama.The former deputy prime minister helped negotiate the Kyoto protocol in 1997, and was in Copenhagen acting as an informal bridge between the Chinese delegation and others.As a...
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From guardian.co.uk
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It seems that former Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, John Prescott, has some skeletons in the family closet, skeletons he didn't know about until discovered by a genealogist who was researching background material for the filming a show for BBC Wales. The politician was told his great-great-grandmother had borne four children by her own father, a miner in North Wales. Prescott told Wales on Sunday the news had left him reeling...
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John Prescott is to appear in BBC1 sitcom Gavin and Stacey, reports the Daily Mirror. The former deputy prime minister, following in the TV footsteps of Tony Blair – who appeared on screen with Catherine Tate – will turn up at "old flame" Nessa's wedding. "I thoroughly enjoyed my cameo," said Prescott. But will viewers?BBCTelevision industryGavin and StaceyTelevisionMonkeyguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2009 | Use of this...
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From guardian.co.uk
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With the election of a Labour government in 1997, Prescott was made
Deputy Prime Minister and given an impressively large portfolio at the
head of the newly created Department for Transport, Environment and the
Regions. In July 2001, an Office of the Deputy Prime Minister was
created to deal with the areas under his responsibility. This new
office was originally a part of the larger Cabinet Office, but became a
department in its own right in May 2002 when it absorbed some of the
resposibilities from the former Department for Transport, Local
Government and the Regions.
It should be noted that in the United Kingdom, the title "Deputy Prime Minister" has rarely been used and confers no specific powers (in which it is similar to the pre-20th century usage of Prime Minister). In particular, the Deputy Prime Minister draws no salary; for Prescott, salary was based on his position as Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions until 2001. Upon losing that role he was given the title First Secretary of State and a much smaller department called the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. The Deputy Prime Minister often stands in when the Prime Minister is unavailable, the most common example being at Prime Minister's Questions (usually when the Prime Minister is out of the country), although Prescott has attended various Heads of Government meetings on behalf of Tony Blair.
It is generally accepted that the second most powerful member of the present British government is the Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown, not John Prescott.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Prescott
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It should be noted that in the United Kingdom, the title "Deputy Prime Minister" has rarely been used and confers no specific powers (in which it is similar to the pre-20th century usage of Prime Minister). In particular, the Deputy Prime Minister draws no salary; for Prescott, salary was based on his position as Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions until 2001. Upon losing that role he was given the title First Secretary of State and a much smaller department called the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. The Deputy Prime Minister often stands in when the Prime Minister is unavailable, the most common example being at Prime Minister's Questions (usually when the Prime Minister is out of the country), although Prescott has attended various Heads of Government meetings on behalf of Tony Blair.
It is generally accepted that the second most powerful member of the present British government is the Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown, not John Prescott.
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Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Prescott
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