We are making the fundamental changes. It was like the decent housing target. We said by 2010, we'd have taken a million houses and refurbished them into decent housing.

He attended Brinsworth Primary School (known then as Brinsworth Manor School) where in 1949 he sat but failed the 11-plus examination to attend Rotherham Grammar School. It has been argued that renovating properties rather than demolishing them would have made better financial and community sense. Rail regulation
Prescott had a stormy relationship with the privatisation of the railway industry.

John Leslie Prescott Baron Prescott (born 31 May 1938) is a British politician who was the Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007. In the 1994 leadership election he stood for both Leader and Deputy Leader of the Labour Party winning election to the latter office. Prescott stood as the Labour candidate in the election to be the first Police and Crime Commissioner for Humberside Police but lost to Conservative Matthew Grove.