Local Democracy Reporter Andrew Spence was one of the invitees to attend the funeral of John Prescott in Hull on Thursday (Jan 30). He tells us what it was like.

Doncaster politicians joined Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and former PMs Sir Tony Blair and Gordon Brown in paying their ...

July 2024 saw Rachel Reeves become the UK’s first female Chancellor of the Exchequer, a landmark achievement. Yet six months on, there have been rumours that she could be sacked. The question is, why?

Senior figures from past and current Labour governments gathered at Hull Minster to remember the former deputy prime minister.

Senior figures from Labour's past and present were among 300 family, friends and ex-colleagues at today's service to remember ...

The service at Hull Minster was attended by three Labour Prime Ministers, as well as several other current and former MPs ...

John Prescott's achievements were "extraordinary", said former Prime Minister Tony Blair at his funeral. Delivering his eulogy at Hull Minster on Thursday, Blair said Prescott was a "complicated man, ...

THE Prime Minister joined two of his predecessors at the funeral service for the late Labour deputy leader John Prescott in Hull today. Sir Keir Starmer joined Gordon Brown and Sir Tony Blair, whom ...

The two Jags on the hearse was a reference to the ex-Deputy PM who was dubbed "two Jags" by the press after he was driven around in two Jaguar cars. The move saw Prescott have a final chuckle about ...

Life for an ambassador dealing with this testosterone-toting administration is going to be about smart dealing ...

Sir Tony Blair and Gordon Brown among many Labour grandees to pay their respects to former deputy prime minister ...