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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."

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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.

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He then successfully ran for the parliamentary seat of Kingston upon Hull East in 1970, and remained their MP for 40 years. Prescott sat on the party's National Executive Committee for 25 years, and lost out twice to become Labour deputy leader in 1988 and 1992 respectively.

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Prescott then became deputy prime minister to Tony Blair in 1997 after Labour 's election victory, 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.

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During the 2001 general election campaign, Prescott famously punched a protestor who had thrown an egg at him in North Wales and later claimed he told Blair "you told us to connect with the electorate, so I did."

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