John Prescott was a merchant seaman who dropped out of school but thrived in politics by bringing working-class credibility to the modernising government of former British prime minister Tony Blair as ...

Detectives investigating the politically embarrassing brawl between Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott and a protester ... throwing incident followed by a punch-up. 'It's like a cloud hanging ...

Lawyers were today deciding whether Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott should be prosecuted for punching a protester during the general election campaign. The Crown Prosecution Service was ...

Whether a former deputy Prime Minister infamous for throwing a punch, to a Scottish independence ... been more different to Tony Blair, yet John Prescott ended up being our longest serving deputy ...