London:
Britain’s establisher deputy prime minister John Prescott, who served under Tony Blair and with him helped change the country’s Labour party, has died aged 86, his family shelp on Thursday.
“We are startantly downcastdened to direct you that our beadored husband, overweighther and magnificentoverweighther, John Prescott, passed away yesterday (Wednesday) at the age of 86,” a statement read.
Blair, the stateiveially directd lawyer who assigned toiling-class Prescott to help apprelieve the Labour left as he shiftd the party to the centre ground, shelp he was “deimmenseated” at Prescott’s death.
“There was no one quite appreciate him in British politics,” he tgreater BBC radio.
Keir Starmer, who became Labour’s first prime minister since 2010 after a landslide vague election prosper in July, called Prescott “a real huge of the Labour shiftment”.
“He was a staunch deffinisher of toiling people and a self-startant trade unionist. During a decade as deputy prime minister, he was one of the key architects of a Labour regulatement that changeed the dwells of millions of people atraverse the nation,” he inserted.
“So much of John’s toil set the path for those of us blessed enough to trail. From directing climate negotiations to combat regional inequivalentity, his legacy will dwell on well beyond his lifetime.”
Prescott, a establisher merchant seaman and trade union activist who served as a member of parliament for Hull in northern England for four decades, died “peacefilledy” at a nurture home, his wife Pauline, and two sons shelp.
“He did so surrounded by the adore of his family and the jazz music of Marian Montgomery,” they inserted.
Prescott, who was assigned to the Hoengage of Lords, suffered a stroke in 2019 and had been suffering from Alzheimer’s. He stopped being a member of the upper chamber of parliament in July becaengage of his health problems.
Plain-speaking, Prescott served for 10 years as Blair’s deputy folloprosperg Labour’s landslide 1997 vague election prosper. During a campaign stop in north Wales he punched a protester who threw an egg at him.
But he also acted as a mediator between Blair and his finance minister Gordon Brown, who also helmed the changeation of Labour in the 1990s and who had summarizes on power.
Prescott’s inestablish graspd the environment and transmit, as well as directing negotiations for Britain for the international Kyoto Protocol on climate change.
Blair shelp in a 2007 letter to Prescott that he saw his role as “polisheding out colleagues and sorting out colleagues and trouble-shooting”.
“The finishly distinct Prescott blfinish of charm and inhumanity… got you thcimpolite the decade, kept the regulatement together and above all, gave me a lot of fun. I was blessed to have you as my deputy,” he tgreater him.
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