Prescott's "Home Pride" election leaflet

yorkshirepost: Fresh embarrassment was heaped on John Prescott yesterday after leaflets dropped through letterboxes in Hull showing him and his wife smiling broadly - under the headline "Home Pride".
The glossy newsletters, showing the Deputy Prime Minister's wife placing a supportive hand on her husband's shoulder, arrived just as revelations about his two-year affair with Civil Service secretary Tracey Temple were breaking.
The image of relaxed togetherness portrayed on the leaflet, which went out to 5,000 homes in the east of Hull, including Sutton, where he lives, was light years away from revelations of infidelity, which left Mrs Prescott "devastated".
And it comes as a blow to Labour locally. The party faces a knife-edge battle in next Thursday's local elections in the city.
Labour councillor Phil Webster said a copy dropped through his letterbox, alongside the election leaflet of his colleague Peter Clark, who is standing for election in the Ings ward next week.
He said: "My exact words were unprintable - I think it's an ill-timed leaflet and I think a lot of people will say 'hypocritical' and bin it." Read more