John prescott

In the north east, there, they have had quite a bit of government offices moving in. It's not a new policy.

That's what I think regions are about, making central government more accountable and fairer.

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

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),...

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.

You go down some street - no doubt it's there, and we have to do something about it, and our programmes are designed to do that - but if that's a picture of Newcastle, it's not the one I recognise and...

It's moving in the right direction. It was in decline under the previous administration.

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.