Former deputy prime minister John Prescott, ex-Tory leader Michael Howard and former Northern Ireland first minister Ian Paisley are among more than 50 senior figures elevated to the House of Lords today.

John Prescott and Sue Nye - the aide Gordon Brown unfairly blamed for his "bigot" gaffe - are in line for peerages in the former Prime Minister's resignation honours list.

John Prescott blunders as he tries to defend the beleaguered Prime Minister.

One of the unalloyed pleasures of Tony Blair's departure from politics was that out with him went John Prescott. John Prescott is back - along with his trademark gauche behaviour  No longer in British public life would we have to suffer the embarrassment of a deputy prime minister, no less,  who brawled in the gutter, claimed droite de seigneur with a diary secretary and procee...

FORMER Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott MP looked in fighting form as he hit the campaign trail in Edinburgh yesterday.

John Prescott, the former deputy prime minister, is to make his debut as guest host on Have I Got News For You, it was announced on Friday.

John Prescott saved my life has a funny ring to it. And he didn't exactly rescue Josie Hall, but when a television company found the 17-year-old on Facebook and drove the former deputy prime minister to her home in south-east London, something definitely changed. As anyone who watched the first episode of Prescott: The Class System and Me knows, Josie and John hit it off. At first they bonded...

FORMER Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott is among the political heavyweights headlining at this summer's Festival of Politics at the Scottish Parliament.

Today's Guardian contains extracts from a book by Sky News' Adam Boulton giving the inside story on Tony Blair's time as Prime Minister. As is to be expected everybody swears a lot, not least John Prescott who, according to one anecdote showed remarkable intolerance to his homeland: On John Prescott cursing the Welsh language: "I had got on well with both Prescott and his wife [befo...

John Prescott today expressed regret for saying that he didn't like Cherie Blair. The former deputy prime minister made his comments while making a BBC documentary about the class system, to be broadcast tonight The programme includes footage of Prescott speaking to three young women about class, one of whom asks Prescott if he liked his former boss, Tony Blair. Prescott confirms he liked the...