A great politician, a good leader who whether i agree with him on not brought the Labour party into the new soundbite media politics, he was though Murdochs choice and that sticks in my throat! He was new labour, Brown was old labour and Prescott was true labour!
Sadly though for all the great things he did and he did change many things in society for the better, he will be remembered for following Bush's personal vendetta to get Sadam at any cost, and leading us into our own Vietnam in Iraq and Afghanistan!
The one thing you can look at is ,when he went the rest could not keep his policies or ideology afloat, and I fully believe had they done that, we would not be now looking at the Tory manufactured Blair clone David Cameron!