Will Prezza spill the beans?
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John Prescott is getting £300,000 for his memoirs which will be called Prezza: Pulling No Punches and ghosted by Hunter Davies. Davies, having worked on the Wayne Rooney and Paul Gascoigne autobiographies, will probably find Prescott a refreshingly intelligent subject.
Interestingly, Davies says that Prescott “realises that he's got to tell the truth. He knows what really happened between Blair and Brown; he was the marriage broker." Admittedly, this could just be pre-publication boosterism but there’s no doubt that Prescott has been franker than many of his colleagues in his reflections on the Blair era. Also, seeing as Prescott’s role was as the marriage counselor the more he tells about how bad things got, the more history will appreciate his role. Equally, he won’t want the most newsworthy aspect of the book to be his affair with Tracy Temple.
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Tiberius
August 18th, 2007 6:16pm Report this commentI wonder if our former DPM will attempt to reconcile his oft-repeated remark about "Mr Lawson and his friends in the City" with New Labour's wooing of big business, not to mention Tory sleaze with his own imitation of a former US President: Prezza, the original flip-flopper and chameleon, and two punches at least which one would expect to be pulled.
Perry
August 18th, 2007 6:58pm Report this commentOne chapter must surely be ‘My fantastics and how they came to infuriation’.
Chelsea
May 2nd, 2008 2:36pm Report this commentis there a coffee shop entitled Spill the Beans?
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