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