‘Prescott was not sidelined’

BRITISH ministers insisted yesterday that Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott had not been sidelined during the latest terror scare.

Home Secretary John Reid, who led the government’s response to the foiled terror attacks, insisted that “conventional arrangements” had been followed.

He said that as home secretary, he was responsible for security, answerable to Tony Blair, who is currently holidaying in the Caribbean, and to Mr Prescott.