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