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John Prescott: Labour’s pugnacious stalwart who pulled no punches
John Leslie Prescott was born on 31 May 1938 in Prestatyn, Wales, to his parents John and Phyllis. A year after his birth and with his mother pregnant with his brother Ray, his father was called up to fight in the war and in 1940, after being shot in the knee, he had to have his leg amputated. Prescott said he was “never very good at lessons or very interested, just sort of average”, but he was getting an education in what was to come, watching his father become involved in local union matters, become a councillor and eventually chairman of the authority.
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