John Prescott

John Prescott speaking at The ICD Reykjavík Congress on Human Rights 2013 Norðurljós, Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Center (Iceland, Reykjavík, April 10th - 13th, 2013)

John Prescott is a British politician who was the Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007.

Biography

In the 1994 he became deputy leader of the Labour party. He was appointed Deputy Prime Minister after Labour’s victory in the 1997 election, with an expanded role as Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions. Prescott also developed a reputation as a key conciliator in the often tense relationship between Tony Blair and the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown. In 2010 he entered the House of Lords as a life peer with the title “Baron Prescott, of Kingston upon Hull in the County of East Yorkshire”.

Education

He then went to the independent Ruskin College in Oxford, which specialises in courses for union officials, where he gained a diploma in economics and politics in 1965. In 1968, he obtained a BSc in economics and economic history at the University of Hull.

Further Information

"A Politician's Perspective on the Enforcement of Human Rights both Nationally and Internationally" A Lecture by Lord John Leslie Prescott, Former Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom The Reykjavík Congress on Human Rights 2013 Norðurljós, Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Center (Iceland, Reykjavík, April 10th - 13th, 2013)

External Links and References

ICD official web page profile

Party political offices
Preceded by Margaret Beckett	Deputy Leader of the Labour Party 1994ñ2007	Succeeded†by Harriet Harman
Political offices
Preceded by John Gummer (Secretary of State for the Environment) and George Young (Secretary of State for Transport)	Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions 1997ñ2001	Succeeded†by Margaret Beckett (Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) and Stephen Byers (Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions)
Preceded by Michael Heseltine	Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1997ñ2007		Succeeded†by Vacant (position next held by Nick Clegg)
Preceded by Vacant (position last held by Micheal Heseltine)	First Secretary of State 2001ñ2007	Succeeded†by Vacant (position last held by The Lord Mandelson)