Prescott's place in the Labour party’s history annals is secure.
political career encapsulated a shift in modern politics that saw the end of Labour’s focus on burly union organising to a modern and vote-winning populism.and the Labour modernisers ahead of their 1997 landslide victory. Pugnacious but loyal, Blair was lucky to have him by his side.will certainly be remembered for the iconic image when he threw a punch at a member of the public during the 2001 general election campaign after the man egged him..
But it was this salt-of-the-earth image that allowed the press to gleefully report some of his grander extravagances. A photograph of the burly former union official playing croquet at his grace-and-favour residence Dorneywood was a gift to his political opponents. He pledged to create an integrated transport system and said success would be measured by reducing car use.
The politician, who also owned a Jaguar himself, was soon dubbed “two Jags” in the press. That became “two jabs” when he punched the protester in 2001. And his political career had some notable failures. A policy to create regional assemblies was rejected by voters. The so-called Pathfinder project, designed to provide thousands of new homes instead oversaw the demolition of houses which would have been cheaper to renovate.
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