Talk:John Prescott

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First Secretary of State
I believe his offices are incorrectly listed.

He is listed at being First Secretary of State: 8 June 2001 – 27 June 2007. In fact, he held this office from 8 June 2001 - 28 May 2002, and again 5 May 2006 - 28 June 2007.

In the meantime, he was Secretary of State for Local Government and Regions from 29 May 2002 - 5 May 2006.

https://www.parliament.uk/biographies/lords/lord-prescott/374 http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/mp.php?mpn=John%20Prescott&display=summary — Preceding unsigned comment added by J1995421 (talk • contribs) 02:14, 8 December 2017 (UTC)


 * I know that this comment is a couple of years old, but I agree that the dates for Prescott's time as First Secretary of State are wrong and should be changed in the article. FollowTheTortoise (talk) 09:57, 1 September 2020 (UTC)


 * I have attempted to have a go at correcting parts of the body of the article in relation to this today, but I'm afraid that I struggle with infoboxes. Could someone please amend the infobox to include the following information, from the UK Parliament website:
 * Deputy Prime Minister - 2 May 1997 to 28 June 2007
 * First Secretary of State - 8 June 2001 to 28 May 2002 and 5 May 2006 to 28 June 2007
 * Secretary of State for Environment, Transport and the Regions - 2 May 1997 to 7 June 2001
 * Secretary of State for Local Government and the Regions - 29 May 2002 to 5 May 2006


 * Thanks! FollowTheTortoise (talk) 15:11, 9 October 2020 (UTC)

Hey Added news about him recently having a stroke. Updates will come out in the following days. We must keep it updated.

UnculturedOzBoz 12:00 24th June 2019 — Preceding unsigned comment added by UnculturedOzBoz (talk • contribs) 11:00, 24 June 2019 (UTC)


 * The notion that Prescott wasn't First Secretary of State but "Secretary of State for Local Government and the Regions" between 2002 & 2006 seems to be a retroactive thing on the parliament website based on the fact that in 2006 the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister was taken off him and retitled thus showing it did not need the DPM running it. Here's the 2005 ODPM report which lists Prescott on the title page as "The Deputy Prime Minister and First Secretary of State," and repeats this later on when listing the whole ministerial team. (Hit the enter key early.) The ODPM dates back to the June 2001 reshuffle and was an unusual bit of government that basically developed as Prescott picked up responsibilities and took his unit out of the Cabinet Office rather than a more straightforward splitting of the Department of Transport, Local Government & the Regions into two separate departments with two separate titled Secretaries of State. (The closest analogy would probably be the Ministry of Administrative Affairs in Yes Minister which also collected responsibilities rather than Jim Hacker changing actual titles.) In 2006 it was taken off Prescott and renamed as a more conventional department headed by a Secretary of State but that doesn't mean Prescott had been such before then. Timrollpickering (talk) 22:03, 13 October 2020 (UTC)


 * Hello again! The parliament.uk website would normally seem like the best source to use for this sort of thing, so I hope you understand why I used it, but I do now agree that the ODPM is an outlier. Indeed, The London Gazette refers to Prescott as First Secretary of State in the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister here in June 2003. I notice that you've already reversed my edits, so thank you for that! FollowTheTortoise (talk) 15:43, 17 October 2020 (UTC)

Television appearances: British Made
TV series on food manufacturing “British Made” RadioTimes David Woodward (talk) 09:34, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

Two Jabs?
Always understood that the nickname was ‘Two Jags,’ referring to his ownership and use of his Jaguars (even for very short journeys) during Labour’s promotion of ‘green credentials’ 78.146.7.41 (talk) 14:43, 15 May 2023 (UTC)
 * "Two Jabs" is a not-unamusing play on the original "Two Jags", arising from the famous incident when some hulking oaf egged Prescott and was, as the sobriquet suggests, promptly socked twice in the face by Prescott. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.243.103.180 (talk) 23:43, 2 July 2024 (UTC)