Remembering John Prescott

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Today, we look back on the life and career of former Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott.

Lord Prescott died aged 86 on Wednesday in his care home, where he had been living with Alzheimer's, his family have said. Adam speaks to former Labour Director of Communications Lord Peter Mandelson about his memories of working with Lord Prescott.

And, Adam talks to Joe Pike, Political Investigations Correspondent, about the Charity Commission’s inquiry into the Captain Tom Foundation, the charity set up by the family of Sir Captain Tom Moore. The Charity Commission said his daughter and son-in-law displayed a "pattern of behaviour" in which they benefited personally from the Captain Tom Foundation and people "would understandably feel misled".

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts.
0:05.3	Hello, on Thursday morning, we woke up to the news that the former Labour Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott had died at the age of 86.
0:14.6	His family said that he died peacefully on Wednesday to the sound of jazz music at the care home he'd been living in where he'd been
0:22.3	living with Alzheimer's. Now, we then called up somebody who's been on newscast a few times before
0:28.7	and who's had a lot of ups and downs with Lord Prescott and knew him very well, Lord Mandelson,
0:35.9	Peter Mandelson, who was Director of Communications for Labor
0:39.7	in the 80s and 90s, and then was a minister in various government departments. And so spent
0:45.2	a lot of time with Gordon Brown, with Tony Blair, and with John Prescott. And we had quite a long
0:51.4	chat about all those decades of public service from Lord Prescott.
0:56.6	And so that's what you're here on this episode of Newscast.
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1:22.2	Lord Mandelson. Hello.
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