John Prescott broke through the norms of politics
The Labour titan was "an extraordinary character"
Hannah Barnes
Hannah Barnes is associate editor of the New Statesman and author of “Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock’s Gender Service for Children” (Swift)
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