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 left school at age 15 with no qualifications studied economics at Hull University and became a trade union activist, leading a national seamen's strike in 1966.