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