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Former trade union activist, who had Alzheimer’s, died peacefully at care home, says family

Obituary: The charismatic former deputy prime minister, who has died at the age of 86, was known best for punching a member of the electorate and acting as a vital bridge for Tony Blair to reach the unions

John Prescott was a formidable campaigner who took his party’s message on the road to its heartlands at a time of change for the movement.

The ex-deputy prime minister was a key figure in Tony Blair’s modernisation project – only to later distance himself from his legacy.

Here are the biggest stories leading Wednesday’s front pages.

A new Multibank is to open in Middlesbrough.

From Nigel Farage to Suella Braverman and Tony Blair, the bloviating talking heads in this documentary give a good sense of how immigration policy became polluted by racism

The Queen was missing from the ceremony in Whitehall, London, through illness.

The Princess of Wales watched on from a balcony over Whitehall.

Ask two Blairites when the New Labour project died, and you might get three different answers. The first is June 2007, when Tony Blair stood down as prime minister. The second is May 2008, when the party ran a class-based (and unsuccessful) campaign at the Crewe and Nantwich by-election. While…

As Rachel Reeves prepares to unveil her measures, we look at how five of her predecessors broke the mould