John Prescott was never short of a word or two - and while they could sometimes become a bit jumbled, he never minced them either. The former Labour deputy prime minister, who died yesterday aged ...

Angela Rayner sought inspiration from John Prescott's rise to the near top of the Labour Party and the country.

John Prescott, who has died aged 86, was a figurehead of New Labour, who was also instinctively sceptical of some of its instincts. He was a bridgehead to Labour's traditional working class roots ...