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There was more to John Prescott than his working class roots

21 November 2024

9:46 PM

21 November 2024

9:46 PM

John Prescott has died, leading to a flood of tributes and comments about the working class hero of the New Labour project. That framing of Prescott is good for headlines but the reality was inevitably more complicated than that. It’s too shallow and narrow to describe Prescott as the lone working class voice in an essentially middle class political enterprise.

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