Quite extraordinary: David Miliband Tweeted during PMQs a rather strange message: "Clegg says govt "acted wrongly" in 1972 in not investigating Father Chesney case. So why no investigation into Coulson?" That's correct: David Miliband is comparing the man behind a terrorist atrocity that killed nine innocent civilians with the editor of a newspaper that allegedly listened in on John Prescott's pie...

As we drift into the weekend, Labour are stepping up their attacks on Andy Coulson. Already today, Tom Watson, Alan Johnson, John Prescott and Chris Bryant have all drawn noisy attention to the allegations made in that New York Times Magazine article about phone tapping and the News of the World – and their efforts have already pushed the story to the top of the BBC news agenda. Indeed, Brya...

John Prescott says he will seek a judicial review if the Met fail to answer questions over alleged News of the World phone hacking

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.