Former Prime Ministers Gordon Brown and Tony Blair were among those who spoke at a touching funeral service for former Deputy Prime Minister Lord John Prescott. There were many recognisable faces in attendance at Hull Minster. Report by Faragt. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00Remember to that phrase he coined.
00:29And kept repeating traditional values in a modern setting, and always with that socialist
00:35message as if engraved on his soul, for the many and not the few.
00:40Unforgettable.
00:41Now in the first act of Hamlet, Shakespeare has words that should ring out today.
00:46He was a man, taken for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.
00:54And that is John, we will never see his like again, a man of the people he certainly was,
00:59in a class by himself, a one of, one of a kind, but one of us, in the best sense of
01:04the word, unique, remarkable, extraordinary.
01:07There is not one of us who thinks of John without a smile.
01:11We love John because he was John.
01:14Unique, irrepressible, irresistible, and very human.
01:19You will miss him.
01:22We will miss him.
01:24And I hope, if John's looking down on us, and not already in deep negotiation with St.
01:32Peter over the accommodation, I hope you will see in this vast gathering today a recognition
01:43of that working class boy from a small Welsh town, who rose to the highest ranks of the
01:49land, by merit, by graft, by greatness of courage and character.
01:58And he will feel deservedly at peace.