The Facts

• Former Deputy Prime Minister Lord John Prescott has died aged 86, With his family writing in a thread on X that he passed "peacefully" on Wednesday "surrounded by the love of his family and the jazz music of Marian Montgomery."

• Born in Wales in 1938 before moving near to Rotherham at the age of four, Prescott studied economics at Hull University and led a national seamen's strike in 1966. He then successfully ran for the parliamentary seat of Kingston upon Hull East in 1970, and remained their MP for 40 years.

• Prescott became deputy prime minister to Tony Blair in 1997 and held the role for ten years. He was ennobled in 2010 before experiencing a stroke in 2019 and later being diagnosed with Alzheimers. Prescott left the House of Lords in July this year, citing health problems.