Former deputy prime minister John Prescott has died aged 86 following a battle with Alzheimer’s, his family has announced.
The former trade union activist and ex-merchant seaman, who rose to become a key figure of Sir Tony Blair’s New Labour project, died “peacefully” and surrounded by relatives at his care home, they said.
He was ennobled in 2010 and introduced to the upper chamber as Baron Prescott of Kingston upon Hull having served for four decades as an MP for the city.
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