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Britain's former Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott, who was known among other things for his work on the Kyoto Protocol climate change agreement in 1997, has died in a care home, aged 86, his family ...

On a visit to Rhyl in north Wales, Prescott was hit by an egg thrown by a local man and responded with a left hook. The ...

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John Prescott, Britain’s longest-serving deputy prime minister who died on Wednesday, was indispensable to Tony Blair’s New Labour government, a working-class trailblazer who connected with the public ...

Former British Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott has died at age 86. Prescott’s family announced his death on Thursday.