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Welcome to the 2 Jags website
Devoted to "2 Jags" Prescott
My
better half is the Rt. Hon John Prescott MP
He is Deputy Prime Minister and Deputy leader of Britain's Labour Party.
Mr. Prescott, the Member of Parliament for Hull East since 1970, was born in 1938. He was educated in Ellesmere Port, and at Ruskin College Oxford, where he gained a diploma in economics and politics. He later gained a B.Sc. (Econ) in economics and economic history at the University of Hull.
Mr. Prescott was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Peter Shore, Secretary of State for Trade (1974-76). He was a delegate to the Council of Europe (1973-75). He was leader of the Labour Party delegation to the European Parliament (1976-79). He was the opposition spokesman for transport (1979-81), and on regional affairs and devolution (1981-83). He has been Shadow secretary for transport (1983-84 and 1988-93), employment (1984-89, 1993-94) and energy 1987-88).
He was elected as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party in 1994, and was appointed to the Privy Council in the same year.
Mr. Prescott has published several pamphlets on employment and other issues. He started work in hotel catering, later becoming a merchant seaman, and then an official with the National Union of Seamen. He is married with two sons.