Former Labour prime ministers Gordon Brown and Sir Tony Blair led tributes to Lord Prescott, the UK's longest-serving deputy prime minister, at his funeral. The service, held in Hull Minster, saw eulogies from both Brown and Blair, who remembered Prescott's impact on the Labour Party and his connection with the working class.
Former Labour prime ministers Gordon Brown and Sir Tony Blair have led tributes to 'working class hero' Lord Prescott at his funeral. The great and the good of the Labour Party remembered the UK's longest-serving deputy prime minister, who died in November aged 86 after a battle with Alzheimer's. The funeral cortege included a Jaguar hearse and limousine, in a nod to Lord Prescott's nickname 'two Jags'.
And, in reference to the infamous incident where Lord Prescott punched a man who threw an egg at him, he said: 'John was a man of the people because he could connect with people, and I don't just mean that man in Rhyl who dared to hurl an egg at him.' Read more:Labour's pugnacious stalwart who pulled no punchesJohn Prescott, a pork pie and me He said Lord Prescott, who came from very little, believed in the 'goodness in everyone...even that egg-thrower in Wales'.
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