Remark on BBC Radio (19 January 1998), quoted in "Passing Comment", The Times (31 January 1998)
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The Green Belt is a Labour achievement — and we mean to build on it.
— John Prescott
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About John Prescott
The Right Honourable John Leslie Prescott (31 May 1938 – 20 November 2024) was a British Labour Party politician who was Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and First Secretary of State from 1997 to 2007. He is notable for being a northern-accented Cabinet minister of working class origins and is well known for the mangled syntax that he often employed while speaking.
About John Prescott
The Right Honourable John Leslie Prescott (31 May 1938 – 20 November 2024) was a British Labour Party politician who was Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and First Secretary of State from 1997 to 2007. He is notable for being a northern-accented Cabinet minister of working class origins and is well known for the mangled syntax that he often employed while speaking.
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