John Prescott was ‘cement that stored new Labour collectively’, Lord Mandelson says

Lord Mandelson has paid tribute to John Prescott after his dying, saying he was a "tremendous force of nature."

He tells Sky’s Kay Burley the way it was to work alongside the previous deputy prime minister in Tony Blair’s cupboard, describing him as "one very essential part of new Labour".

Lord Mandelson mentioned he "basically kept us in our working class roots and our trade union history and he was the bridge between that and the modernisers in the Labour Party."

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