1. John Prescott was born in Groton, Massachusetts to a well-known Massachusetts Bay Colony family.
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1. John Prescott was born in Groton, Massachusetts to a well-known Massachusetts Bay Colony family.
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3. Tony Blair won the leadership easily, but John Prescott defeated Beckett for the deputy leadership by 57 to 43 percent.
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5. John Prescott responded by saying, "Every expense was within the rules of the House of Commons on claiming expenses at the time".
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7. John Prescott was photographed playing croquet at his then "grace and favour" home Dorneywood when Tony Blair was out of the country on a visit to Washington.
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8. John Prescott was criticised for maintaining the benefits of Deputy Prime Minister despite losing his department in 2006.
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16. John Prescott engaged in a discussion with host Jeremy Clarkson regarding his time in Government.
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17. On 27 February 2011, John Prescott appeared on the BBC's Top Gear as the "Star in the Reasonably Priced Car", where he set a lap time of 1.56.7, the second slowest in a Kia Cee'd.
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18. John Prescott chose to make a non-religious solemn affirmation rather than swearing an oath during his introduction in the House of Lords.
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20. John Prescott is a director of Super League rugby league club Hull Kingston Rovers, who are based in his former constituency of Hull East.
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22. John Prescott became an important figure in Tony Blair's "New Labour" movement, as the representative of 'old Labour' interests in the Shadow Cabinet and subsequently around the Cabinet table as Deputy Prime Minister.
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24. On 17 December 2005, John Prescott made public his disapproval of Tony Blair's plans to give state schools the right to govern their finances and admission policies and to increase the number of city academies.
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25. In July 1998, John Prescott, published a transport White Paper stating that the rail industry needed an element of stability and certainty if it was to plan its activities effectively.
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26. In 1998, John Prescott was criticised by Transport Minister John Reid for his statement—at the Labour Party conference that year—that the privatised railway was a "national disgrace", despite receiving a standing ovation from the Labour Party audience.
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27. John Prescott had vigorously opposed the privatisation of the industry while the Labour Party was in opposition, and disliked the party's policy, established in 1996 just before the flotation of Railtrack on the London Stock Exchange, of committing to renationalise the industry only when resources allowed, which he saw as meaning that it would never be done.
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30. John Prescott held various posts in Labour's Shadow Cabinet, but his career was secured by an impassioned closing speech in the debate at the Labour Party Conference in 1993 on the introduction of "one member, one vote" for the selection and reselection of Labour Parliamentary candidates that helped swing the vote in favour of this reform.
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34. In 2009, John Prescott featured in the BBC Wales programme Coming Home about his Welsh family history, with roots in Prestatyn and Chirk.
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35. John Prescott stood as the Labour candidate in the election to be the first Police and Crime Commissioner for Humberside Police, but lost to Conservative Matthew Grove.
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36. John Prescott developed a reputation as a key conciliator in the often stormy relationship between Prime Minister Tony Blair and Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown.
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37. John Prescott was appointed Deputy Prime Minister after Labour's victory in the 1997 election, with an expanded brief as Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions.
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