Whenever I hear a funeral eulogy or read a newspaper obituary, the stories that hit me hardest are about the difference someone made to the people around them or the community they lived in. You know someone lived a good life when the legacy they left behind was making other people’s lives that bit better.

Former Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom who served under Tony Blair and helped transform the country’s Labour Party, John Prescott is dead.

John Prescott, a former British deputy prime minister in Tony Blair’s Labour government, has died, his family said on Thursday.