John Leslie Prescott, Baron Prescott Quotes

In a sense, what we do with the regional development agencies is to give them resources to look at the deficiencies in the economy in the regional areas, so they can address themselves to that.

If you look at Newcastle or Gateshead, even over twenty years, even with the previous administration, it has moved quite remarkably in transforming itself.

I’ve gone through that with my mother and father and here I was in a similar situation. I’ve wronged her and I’ve wronged the family. Because when these things happen, it doesn’t just happen to you, it happens to the people around you and the family.

I’m going to introduce you to a revolutionary thought – you can go slower and get there quicker. And that’s to do with flow. As soon as you made it two lanes and brought in the 70 (mph) and 50 (mph), you got there quicker. It meant the flow of the traffic was better, there were less accidents, less deaths, I think that’s an important factor.

I was the one that brought it in, but not only for the north-east, for every area so we can develop all the regional economies, lift up the national productivity, get greater wealth and share it more evenly.

I see this fella built like a barn door… and there’s all these fox hunters, who didn’t like me, screaming and shouting and as I walked past him I looked at him and he hit me with something.

I have only been seeking to get them to the negotiating table and, thank God, that’s where they are.

From 1997 when we came in, you guys and the public bought seven million more cars. You didn’t get rid of the second car, did you? So what is happening is the growth of cars on the motorway.

Down in the south, it’s how we find the brownfield sites without taking too much land take to meet the tremendous demand for housing, and that’s what I’ve done.

All I could feel was this warm liquid running down my neck. You automatically think it’s blood, it’s all in split seconds, so I decided to say I didn’t agree with him.