Will Prezza spill the beans?

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.