Prezza Punches His Weight

Huzzah for Prezza. This morning on Radio 4, usually known for it's ambushing of politicians, inviting them onto the programme to discuss one issue then asking them for off the cuff comments on another, John Prescott remained calm and gave Radio 4s new economic skinhead, Evan Davis, a verbal thumping for his cheeky bushwack. Asked onto the Today programme to discuss his TV show on Class in British Society, Davis began to ask Prezza about the Mandelson/Deripaska business. It's obvious that Prescott has taken some ducking and diving lesson in the local gym since his straight left to the electorate of yore because he handled Davis in consummate style deflecting the question adroitly and with not a little humour. JP really is a joy for commentators and not for the same reasons that Mandelson is. He is straightforward and often unintelligible but always worth listening to. I, for one, am going to miss him