John Leslie Prescott (born 31 May 1938) is a Welsh Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Hull East since 1970; from 1997 to 2007, he was the Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, also serving as First Secretary of State from 2001. He was elected Deputy Leader of the Labour Party after coming second in the 1994 leadership election, and was duly appointed Deputy Prime Minister after Labour's victory in the 1997 election, with an expanded brief as Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions.
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