Look I’ve got my old pledge card a bit battered and crumpled, we said we’d provide more turches churches teachers and we have. I can remember when pe… - John Prescott

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Look I’ve got my old pledge card a bit battered and crumpled, we said we’d provide more turches churches teachers and we have. I can remember when people used to say the Japanese are better than us, the Germans are better than us, the French are better than us — well it’s great to be able to say we’re better than them. I think Mr Kennedy well we all congratulate on his baby and the Tories are you remembering what I’m remembering boom and bust negative equity, remember Mr Howard, I mean are you thinking what I’m thinking I’m remembering, it’s all a bit wonky isn’t 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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