QUENTIN LETTS: For parliamentary sketch writers, John Prescott was our Everest, our woolly-fisted yeti, irresistibly abominable.
John Prescott had died and so MPs, some of whom may even have known him, lined up to perjure themselves.
Sir Keir Starmer claimed that Lord Prescott 'set the path for us all to follow'. The Prime Minister, ever one to furnish a stately occasion with its most plodding epigram, bit on his lip and averred 'his legacy lives on in all of us'. John Prescott's family announced his passing away today at the age 86 after a battle with alzheimer's'Stenographers would gaze at his raw verbiage and somehow have to assemble credible sentences', writes Quentin Letts
Soon after he was caught bonking his diary secretary he had to enter a jeering Commons to deputise for Tony Blair at PMQs. Read MoreBREAKING NEWS John Prescott punch victim pays tribute to Labour MP but admits he 'doesn't regret throwing egg' A then Labour MP for Swindon, Anne Snelgrove, took exception to this laughter and shouted: 'We're proud of him.'
John Major came from just as hard a childhood and achieved more, doing so without grammatical incident. One of Prescott's principal responsibilities was acting as the broker in the fraught relationship shared by Tony Blair and Gordon Brown
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