>>Prescott was born in North Wales. Like most things in his life, this was probably an accident.

He was born in Prestatyn, primary schooled in Yorkshire, secondary schooled in Ellesmere Port (Cheshire). He still has family locally. A few years ago now, I turned from the cash machine outside a bank in Chester and said hello to the bloke behind me, who looked very familiar. I thought I knew him from work. As I walked down the street I realised that the reason he looked so familiar was there had been a big picture of the Labour Deputy Leader addressing a party conference in Blackpool on the front of that mornings newspaper! He had obviously dropped in to visit family on his way back to London.

He has been MP for Hull for a long time (I think 1970), hence why people associate him with there.

I wonder if the former lead singer of the Ugly Rumours knows the words to Go Now? I presume Gordon Brown plays that one quite loudly in his Number 11 office with all the windows open, possibly followed up by Steve Knightley's Crooked Man.