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Jodie Marsh recalls wild night out with John Prescott as she pays tribute to the 'perfect gentleman' after former Deputy Prime Minister's death
The former Labour MP and peer passed away on Wednesday to the sound of his favourite jazz and surrounded with loved-ones after a long battle with illness.
Lord Prescott was Blair's political bruiser and battering ram - the bridge between New and old Labour who could down a pint in five seconds and was always up for a fight, including his most recent battles with a stroke and Alzheimer's. The son of a railwayman and a servant from north Wales, he was a fine boxer as a boy after moving to Yorkshire - and his most famous moment was when he thumped a farmer who had egged him outside a Labour rally in Rhyl in 2001. 'John spent his life trying to improve the lives of others, fighting for social justice and protecting the environment, doing so from his time as a waiter on the cruise liners to becoming Britain's longest serving deputy prime minister.'
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