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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. Born in Prestatyn, Wales, he represented Hull East as the Labour Member of Parliament from 1970 to 2010. In the 1994 leadership election, he stood for both Leader and Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, winning election to the latter office. He was appointed Deputy Prime Minister after Labour's victory in the 1997 election, with an expanded brief as Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions.
A former ship's steward and trade union activist, by the 1980s he was presented as the political link to the working class in a Labour Party increasingly led by modernising, middle-class professionals. In his youth, Prescott managed to overcome the handicap of failing his 11-plus entrance examination for grammar school, going on to graduate from Ruskin College in Oxford. Prescott also developed a reputation as a key conciliator in the often tense relationship between Prime Minister Tony Blair and Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown.
Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is a British Labour Party politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2 May 1997 to 27 June 2007. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. He resigned from all of these positions in June 2007.
Blair was elected Leader of the Labour Party in the leadership election of July 1994, following the sudden death of his predecessor, John Smith. Under his leadership, the party used the phrases "New Labour" and "New Socialism" to define its policy, and moved away from its support of state socialism since the 1960s and created a new version of the ethical socialism that was last pursued by Clement Attlee. Critics of Blair claim that "New Labour" did not adhere to socialism as claimed, and that it effectively advocated capitalism. Blair subsequently led Labour to a landslide victory in the 1997 general election. At 43 years old, he became the youngest Prime Minister since Lord Liverpool in 1812. In the first years of the New Labour government, Blair's government implemented a number of 1997 manifesto pledges, introducing the minimum wage, Human Rights Act and Freedom of Information Act, and carrying out devolution, establishing the Scottish Parliament, the National Assembly for Wales, and the Northern Ireland Assembly.
Actors: Damian Lewis (actor), John Henshaw (actor), Chris Wilson (actor), Richard Morrison (miscellaneous crew), Julian Nott (composer), Paula Jack (miscellaneous crew), Richard Durden (actor), Amy Roberts (costume designer), Tony Slattery (actor), Asha Sharma (miscellaneous crew), Maxine Peake (actress), Jonathan Aris (actor), Daniel Ryan (actor), Eiji Kusuhara (actor), David Aukin (producer),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Boris Johnson (actor), Nayef Rashed (miscellaneous crew), Katherine Burchill (costume designer), Tony Gardner (actor), Chris Beeson (editor), Amanda Platell (actress), Alison Jackson (writer), Alison Jackson (director), Anthony Boys (editor), Steve Anderson (producer), James Hurn (actor), James Hurn (actor), James Hurn (actor), James Hurn (actor), Bob Hayward (editor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: George Waggner (writer), Paul Landres (director), Myron Healey (actor), Whit Bissell (actor), George Hamilton (actor), Roy Engel (actor), Olive Blakeney (actress), Jack Lomas (actor), Boris Karloff (actor), Boris Karloff (actor), Boris Karloff (actor), Boris Karloff (actor), Boris Karloff (actor), George Waggner (director), Jean Del Val (actor),
Genres: Horror,Actors: Leon Ames (actor), Leon Ames (actor), Budd Buster (actor), Wallace Ford (actor), Wallace Ford (actor), William Humphrey (actor), Lafe McKee (actor), Spencer Gordon Bennet (producer), Lester F. Scott Jr. (producer), Betty Burbridge (writer), Betty Burbridge (writer), Spencer Gordon Bennet (director), Hal Taliaferro (actor), Ray Turner (actor), E. Alyn Warren (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: John Smiley (actor), Joseph W. Smiley (actor), Lila Leslie (actress), Siegmund Lubin (producer), William A. Cohill (actor),
Genres: Drama, Short,