Angela Rayner remembers John Prescott, former Deputy Prime Minister, recalling his phone calls after PMQs and his advice to focus on serving the people.
Angela Rayner has paid tribute to John Prescott , a predecessor as deputy Prime Minister, as she recalled how he used to give her a call after she did Prime Minister's Questions. Ms Rayner told LBC's Andrew Marr that Prescott, who has died aged 86, would tell her 'how brilliant it was' that she'd reached her position.'We both come from very working class roots,' she said - and told Andrew that Prescott had always told her to focus on 'delivering for the people that put you there'.
Ms Rayner added that she had visited Mr Prescott a few months ago, not long before he went into a care home. Prescott had Alzheimer's before he died.'He was fantastic,' Ms Rayner said of her visit.Read more: Gordon Brown pays tribute to 'colossus' John Prescott after his death aged 86 following battle with Alzheimer'sRead more: Infamous moment John Prescott punches protester who threw egg at him 'He was his usual jolly self, you know, and he was asking about how things were for me... He was so pleased that Labour were back in power.'The former trade union activist died 'peacefully' and surrounded by relatives at his care home, his family said in a statement.They said he spent his life 'trying to improve the lives of others, fighting for social justice and protecting the environment'.Prescott was a key figure of Sir Tony Blair's New Labour project, seen by many as custodian of the party's traditional values in the face of a modernising leadership.He was ennobled in 2010 and introduced to the upper chamber as Baron Prescott of Kingston upon Hull after having served for four decades as an MP for the city. Ms Rayner said: 'John was quite a figurehead, not just in the Labour movement, but in politics in general. He often got memorialised for the character that he was, but actually so much more than that. 'And if you look at the Blair and Brown years, he was kind of a link to keep the party together'Ms Rayner said that the practical way he dealt with politics was also importan
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