Baron Prescott 'will hold Government to account'

07/08/10 John Prescott is to take the title Baron Prescott of Kingston-upon-Hull when he is sworn in as a member of the House of Lords today.

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Prescott to launch legal action over phone-hacking

09/17/10 Former deputy prime minister John Prescott will launch a claim for judicial review of the Metropolitan Police's handling of the News of the World phone hacking investigation he announced on Friday.

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Our obsession with class is as strong as ever

10/29/10 It was that inveterate class warrior John Prescott who said in 1997 that we are all middle class now. Are we? We have an Etonian PM who has a baronet for a father-in-law and an Etonian Mayor of London. Our ruling classes are not exactly middle class. At the opposite end of the social spectrum, half the children in London live below the poverty line.

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