Behind the Scenes with John Prescott on the Campaign Trail (1997)

On 11 April 1997, ITN’s Richard Lindley spent the day on the campaign trail with Labour Party deputy leader John Prescott. Welcomed into Prescott’s room at the Forte Posthouse Grimsby, Lindley watched the longtime Member of Parliament for Kingston upon Hull East as he, together with his team, listened to Michael Heseltine being interviewed on Radio Four, taking notes all the way. Prescott himself then sat for a brief interview with Richard Lindley, who asked him how he felt being the man chosen to get the New Labour across to the regions. Cameras then filmed Prescott on the phone with Labour leader Tony Blair, before following him to a campaign event at the Birds Eye factory in Grimsby.
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[@adamtoms761]

0:30 why did the briefcase closing make me laugh so much?

[@ronmccullock1407]

Happy memories

[@jamesbomd3503]

Used to watch John Prescott on the Comedians on ITV late on a Sunday night in the early 1970s after Upstairs Downstairs, The Ghost of Motley Hall, Catch Phrase, Surprise Surprise, Clive Anderson on TV & before Hail & Pace,The South Bank show, & in the late 70s I got the distinct Privilege to see him live At the Embassy Club in Manchester Ehhh Those were the days.

[@Gubbins2010]

With him shaving getting the Harry Perkins vibes.

[@adamcormie3362]

Good old John, remember when he punched the guy it was brilliant haha

[@MarkHarrison733]

He should have been arrested.

[@adamcormie3362]

@@MarkHarrison733 the guy that threw the egg should have

[@Based_Stuhlinger]

@@MarkHarrison733 He fucked around and found out.

[@MarkHarrison733]

@@adamcormie3362 Prescott covered up child abuse.

[@MarkHarrison733]

@@Based_Stuhlinger Prescott enabled child abuse.

[@Jesus420.69]

An absolute gent John Prescott is. They just don’t come like him anymore.

[@MarkHarrison733]

He was just an Anglophobic racist.

[@agr7879]

He was great on Blankety Blank as well!

[@andydixon2980]

When does he throw a punch?

[@taniablack5018]

You can tell Angela Rayner is heavily influenced by Prescott. Not necessarily a bad thing.

[@MarkHarrison733]

Rayner should have ben fired when Sir David Amess was murdered.

[@wilsonfisk6626]

​@@MarkHarrison733Rayner is a chav

[@taniablack5018]

@@MarkHarrison733 You’re a strange, lonely man.

[@jamesbomd3503]

Two Jags 1 chauffeur driven Jaguar for him 1 chauffeur driven Jaguar for his wife And her buffoon hairstyle which had its own Twitter account even in 1997 long before the Internet.

[@classicalgent7746]

Labour trick to appeal to the Working Class they secretly hate, Prescott in 97, Angela Rayner today.

[@kinomusic9110]

Your typical 'socialist'. Fights the 'establishment' until they get invited in to it. An opponent of the House of Lords when it helped his class struggle.....then becomes a Lord himself.

[@Based_Stuhlinger]

I think he was always aligned with the right of the party, not the left-wing.

[@kinomusic9110]

@@Based_Stuhlinger He was the 'link' to Old Labour and the Unions, that's why he was put in as deputy leader. He ardently opposed the House of Lords his whole life, until......