The son of Labour’s former deputy prime minister John Prescott has joined the Green Party, Sky News can reveal.
David Prescott, whose father served alongside Sir Tony Blair for 10 years, joined the Greens in October 2025, a year after his dad died.
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In a post on Facebook, Mr Prescott appears alongside Green activists in Gorton and Denton, which last week delivered the party’s first by-election victory in its history.
An accompanying caption read: “What. A. Day. Hope Beat Hate.”
‘John would be furious’
Karl Turner, who succeeded John Prescott as the Labour MP for Hull East in the 2010 general election, told Sky News the defection was “hugely disappointing” but “no surprise.”
“David was born into the Labour Party and like myself he was from a rock-solid socialist and trade union family,” he said.
“Again like myself, David was politically active from a very young age. David was always his own man not his old man.”
He added: “I suspect John Prescott would be furious if he was around today.
“But his anger would be aimed at the Labour Party for allowing progressive voters to leave Labour and go to what they see as a left-wing, more progressive alternative to the party he worked all of his adult life to elect into government, to change the lives of the many, not the few, for the better.”
John Prescott served as deputy PM for 10 years alongside Tony Blair
The news comes after Labour suffered one of its worst by-election defeats in Gorton and Denton, coming third behind Reform and the Greens.
The result has confirmed fears within Labour that as well as facing the risk of losing votes to Reform on the right, the Green Party also poses a threat to its fracturing base of progressive voters, who have…
