Hull Live readers have their say on how John Prescott should be honoured

CALLS FOR A STATUE TO HONOUR THE FORMER HULL MP WERE BLOCKED

- By ANDREW SPENCE

AFTER the suggestion for a statue depicting Lord Prescott was rejected by councillors on financial grounds, Hull Live readers have been getting creative in suggesting other ways the former Deputy Prime Minister could be honoured.

At July's Hull City Council full council meeting held on Thursday, July 17, Cllr Julia Conner (Independent, Longhill and Bilton Grange ward) brought forward a motion calling for a statue to be erected in the Hull East constituency where Lord Prescott, who sadly passed away last year, was the local MP for almost 40 years.

Cllr Conner's motion received backing from her Independent colleagues and the Labour Party members in the council, but due to rejections from the council’s leading Liberal Democrat group, the motion failed by the narrowest of margins.