If you look at newcastle or gateshead, even over twenty years, even with the previous administration — Baron Prescott, John Leslie Prescott
There is progress taking place, growth is better. We’re only talking about two years there. — Baron Prescott, John Leslie Prescott
All I could feel was this warm liquid running down my neck. You automatically think it’s blood — Baron Prescott, John Leslie Prescott
Down in the south, it’s how we find the brownfield sites without taking too much land take to meet the — Baron Prescott, John Leslie Prescott
Perhaps they thought I was on a fact-finding mission, never for one moment thinking that a man of — Baron Prescott, John Leslie Prescott
You didn’t get rid of the second car, did you? so what is happening is the growth of cars on the motorway. — Baron Prescott, John Leslie Prescott
I have only been seeking to get them to the negotiating table and, thank God, that’s where they are. — Baron Prescott, John Leslie Prescott
I see this fella built like a barn door… and there’s all these fox hunters, who didn’t like me — Baron Prescott, John Leslie Prescott
I’m going to introduce you to a revolutionary thought – you can go slower and get there quicker. — Baron Prescott, John Leslie Prescott
I’ve gone through that with my mother and father and here I was in a similar situation. — Baron Prescott, John Leslie Prescott
In the north east, there, they have had quite a bit of government offices moving in. It’s not a new policy. — Baron Prescott, John Leslie Prescott
It’s moving in the right direction. It was in decline under the previous administration. — Baron Prescott, John Leslie Prescott
Refurbishing I’ve done in the first three years and I’m still giving housing money, of course, to the north. — Baron Prescott, John Leslie Prescott
She’s not forgiven me, but we have a wonderful life from our family and that’s the nature and quality — Baron Prescott, John Leslie Prescott
That’s what I think regions are about, making central government more accountable and fairer. — Baron Prescott, John Leslie Prescott
The choice is not normally between the north and south. It might be between britain and europe. — Baron Prescott, John Leslie Prescott
The only break I ever took was to eat. That’s all I did. Work, and then quickly eat something. — Baron Prescott, John Leslie Prescott
There was only one punch. Tony blair rang me and he said ‘are you ok?’ and I said ‘yes’, and he said ‘well, what happened?’ — Baron Prescott, John Leslie Prescott
There’s no excuse, it’s just an opportunity that presented in a limited way and that happened and as — Baron Prescott, John Leslie Prescott
We said by 2010, we’d have taken a million houses and refurbished them into decent housing. — Baron Prescott, John Leslie Prescott
We’ve given more resources. On housing, we are now establishing a regional housing pot. — Baron Prescott, John Leslie Prescott
What government has been doing, we’ve got major programmes now, of billions of pounds, which are directed — Baron Prescott, John Leslie Prescott
Why can’t we, with a more intelligent policy, actually have houses that are affordable — Baron Prescott, John Leslie Prescott
You go down some street – no doubt it’s there, and we have to do something about it, and our programmes — Baron Prescott, John Leslie Prescott
I was the one that brought it in, but not only for the north-east, for every area so we can develop all. — Baron Prescott, John Leslie Prescott
In a sense, what we do with the regional development agencies is to give them resources to look — Baron Prescott, John Leslie Prescott
So what I did was stuff my face with anything around, any old rubbish, burgers, chocolate, crisps, fish and chips — Baron Prescott, John Leslie Prescott
We believe the 36, nearly 40, billion pound discount given for a right to buy houses took a million houses — Baron Prescott, John Leslie Prescott
