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Website. Official website. Alan Arthur Johnson (born 17 May 1950) is a British politician who served as Secretary of State for Education and Skills from 2006 to 2007, Secretary of State for Health from 2007 to 2009, Home Secretary from 2009 to 2010, and Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2010 to 2011.
Dec 6, 2018 · By Alan Johnson. (Photo By Getty) It was a Friday night in March 1974, and I was engaged in the weekly ritual of a night out with the lads – except tonight I had only one companion, Mick from four doors down. Tony from next door and Robert from next door but one were otherwise engaged: Martin from the end house was visiting relatives.
Jan 20, 2011 · 20 January 2011. Alan Johnson, the former postman and union leader widely regarded as having that elusive "ordinary bloke" image, has resigned as shadow chancellor for "family and personal reasons ...
Jul 2, 2024 · Portrait of Alan Johnson, 2016, James Gifford-Mead. There are many things I'll miss about being an MP (the people, the prestige, the salary) but being part of the election process isn't one of them. Technological advances have changed most aspects of our lives, yet pounding the streets in pursuit of votes continues to be the main activity of ...
Jul 26, 2017 · Another bright-spark Blairite who has been recently elevated to high places — as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions — is Alan Johnson. Johnson was also a “Trot” when he was a teenager. But he also soon left that behind. What experience will Alan bring to his new job? As General Secretary of the UCW, then CWU, he was the architect of the terrible policy of “commercial freedom ...
Alan Johnson’s childhoodwas not so much difficult as unusual, particularly for a man who was destined to become Home Secretary. Not in respect of the poverty, which was shared with many of those living in Britain’s post-war slums, but in its transition from being part of a two-parent family to having a single mother and then to no parents at all…
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Sep 22, 2016 · 'Johnson writes with his usual warmth, wit and modesty' Sunday TimesWinner of the Parliamentary Book Award, best memoir by a Parliamentarian, 2016This is politics as you've never seen it before.From the condemned slums of Southam Street in West London to the corridors of power in Westminster, Alan Johnson’s multi-award-winning autobiography charts an extraordinary journey, almost ...
