John Prescott Quotes
There is progress taking place, growth is better. We're only talking about two years there.
Prescott, John. Interview by David Frost. Breakfast with Frost, BBC News, 31 Oct. 2004.
This quotation was sent by Josephus Daniels to Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1936 for use in his fireside chats.
John Leslie Prescott, Baron Prescott is a British Labour Party politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Kingston upon Hull East from 1970 to 2010. He was seen as the political link to the working class in a Labour Party increasingly led by modernising, middle-class professionals such as Tony Blair and Peter Mandelson and developed a reputation as a key conciliator in the often stormy relationship between Blair and Gordon Brown.