The Green Belt is a Labour achievement — and we mean to build on it. - John Prescott

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The Green Belt is a Labour achievement — and we mean to build on it.

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About John Prescott

The Right Honourable John Leslie Prescott (31 May 1938 – 20 November 2024) was a British Labour Party politician who was Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and First Secretary of State from 1997 to 2007. He is notable for being a northern-accented Cabinet minister of working class origins and is well known for the mangled syntax that he often employed while speaking.

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Alternative Names: John Leslie Prescott Baron Prescott John Leslie Prescott, Baron Prescott Baron Prescott of Kingston upon Hull in the County of East Yorkshire
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