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Alan Johnson

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Alan Johnson was born in May 1950. He is a British Labour Party politician who served as Home Secretary from June 2009 to May 2010. Before that he filled a wide variety of cabinet positions in both the Blair and Brown governments, including Health Secretary and Education Secretary. Until 20 January 2011 he was Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer. Johnson was the Member of Parliament for Hull West and Hessle until his retirement from politics in 2017. His first book, This Boy, won the RSL Ondaatje Prize and the Orwell Prize in 2013. His second, Please Mister Postman, won the National Book Award for Autobiography of the Year in 2014. His third, The Long and Winding Road, was published in 2016 and won the Parliamentary Book Award for Best Memoir.

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  • Crystal Mahey-Morgan
  • Jude Rogers
  • Kirsten Norrie
  • Coco Khan
  • Gareth E. Rees
  • Nadia Valman
  • Catherine Steadman
  • Lauren Laverne
  • Alex Clark
  • Mazin Saleem
  • Thurston Moore
  • Joel Morris & Jason Hazeley
  • Stephen Morris
  • Jan Noble
  • Joel Golby
  • Ben Moor
  • Alex Jackson
  • Paul Burston
  • Ken Worpole
  • Fernando Sdrigotti
  • Magdalene Forés
  • Tom Huddleston
  • Diana Henry
  • Claire Armitstead
  • Shiromi Pinto
  • Joe Haddow
  • Francesca Cassini
  • Roger Robinson
  • Ed Miliband
  • Greta Bellamacina
  • Sheila Dillon
  • Ryann Donnelly
  • Kostya Tsolákis
  • Niki Segnit
  • Johny Pitts
  • Jessica Martin
  • Xanthi Barker
  • Alan Johnson
  • Daniel Trilling
  • Wendy Jones
  • Sophie Naufal
  • Caroline Rosie Dent
  • Anthony Cartwright
  • Henny Beaumont
  • Dorian Lynsky
  • Kit Caless
  • Sali Hughes
  • Dan O’Brien
  • Kiare Ladner
  • Robyn Travis
  • Torcuil Crichton
  • Olia Hercules
  • Bruno Vincent
  • Jean McNeil
  • Golnoosh Nour
  • Nadia Shireen
  • Dina Nayeri
  • Pete Brown
  • Caroline Bobby
  • Ana Seferović
  • Julia Bueno
  • Will Wiles
  • Martin Rowson
  • John Hegley
  • Nicola Kent
  • Saima Mir
  • John Osborne
  • Anna Birch
  • Richard Boon
  • Francesca Segal
  • Sue Quinn
  • Sophie Parkin
  • Briony Bax
  • Zawe Ashton
  • Michael Goldfarb
  • Alissa Timoshkina
  • Suzanne Noble
  • Kerry Hudson
  • Valerie Brandes
  • Sean Longden
  • Georgina Pringle
  • Nick Thorpe
  • Paul Scraton
  • Jenny Linford
  • Sophie Parkin
  • Eloise Millar
  • Zia Ahmed
  • Natasha Carthew
  • Ken Worpole
  • Jody Porter
  • Isobel Galleymore
  • Elizabeth Macneal
  • Nikesh Shukla
  • Michael Bravo
  • Robert Montgomery
  • Tim Wells
  • Lynn Enright
  • Felicity Cloake
  • Joe Kerr
  • Rosie Price
  • Ashley Hickson-Lovence
  • Suzi Feay
  • Anita Sethi
  • Rachel McCormack
  • Mariam Khan
  • Natasha Carthew
  • Emanuelle Dirix
  • Niall McDevitt
  • Patrice Lawrence
  • Geoff Nicholson
  • Yasmin Khan
  • Karen Liebenguth
  • Neil Denny
  • Jeremy Reed
  • Debora Robertson
  • Julius Beltrame
  • Serena Constance
  • Travis Elborourgh
  • Lara Maiklem
  • Jo Neary
  • Sav Akyuz
  • Louie Stowell
  • Andy Miller
  • Melanie McGrath
  • Alice Lascelles
  • Michele Kirsch
  • Nigella Lawson
  • Lee Jackson
  • Jamie Lee
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