I have written before on how we are seemingly incapable of having an intelligent debate on the NHS. As soon as any reform is mooted, people like John Prescott immediately jump on to a bandwagon, making outrageous claims of the dire consequences that will befall us. We live in a country that thinks only the government can provide an effective, free at the point of use healthcare system. We are comp...

Former Deputy Leader Lord Prescott has said the party has forgotten how to organise and called for limits on party political spending, repeating claims he recently made to The Guardian that the Party is close to bankruptcy. Calling for a membership drive, John Prescott, who is campaigning to be elected Treasurer of the Party, told the Scottish Parliament’s annual Festival of Politics: “...

Labour former deputy prime minister John Prescott warns his party faces bankruptcy if it cannot tackle its £20m of debt.

For the Conservatives it’s the quitting of their next treasurer, David Rowland, whilst for Labour it’s John Prescott warning of the Labour facing bankrupcy (the context for which you can see in these graphs).

The weekend media was full of the news of Alan Milburn’s putative return to front-line politics with his appointment to a role advising the Coalition Government on policies to promote social mobility. Reaction to the news has been mixed. John Prescott, never one to mince his words when he can mangle them instead, spat out

Former Labour colleagues fury at the leading Blairite's decision to return become an adviser to David Cameron.

The trade in celebrity body parts seems to know no bounds, says Matthew Norman.

FORMER deputy prime minister John Prescott privately harboured doubts about the intelligence used to justify the invasion of Iraq in 2003, he has disclosed

Lord Prescott has told the inquiry into the war he felt ''nervous'' about the notorious claim published in the September 2002 dossier that Saddam could launch WMD within 45 minutes.

Lord Prescott has told the inquiry into the war he felt ''nervous'' about the notorious claim published in the September 2002 dossier that Saddam could launch WMD within 45 minutes.