HARDtalk - Lord Prescott - Deputy Prime Minister, 1997-2007

Politics is a rough business, and Lord Prescott has the scars to prove it. John Prescott was Deputy Prime Minister during the premiership of Tony Blair. During his time in that Labour government his phone was hacked by an investigator working for the News of the World. The hacking scandal has prompted a fierce debate on the press, the police and the practice of politics. Stephen Sackur asks, when all the talking is over, what will change?

Broadcast
21th March 2012
0.30am - 1.00am
BBC News Channel