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• Why both the Tories and Labour are vainly yearning for fantasy leaders

  19 Oct 2014: Andrew Rawnsley: Labour politicians sigh for Alan Johnson. Tories dream of life under Boris. It’s easier than facing the truth

• Alan Johnson: Labour’s plaintalking antidote to Ukip – if he’d come back

  16 Oct 2014: Former home secretary is a striking contrast to party’s current leading lights, but a return to frontline politics seems unlikely

• Labour has given up expecting to be inspired by Miliband

  14 Oct 2014: Rafael Behr: Alan Johnson has ruled himself out of a leadership challenge, so Labour MPs are reconciled to making the best of what they’ve got

• What Labour can do to see off the threat posed by Ukip

  13 Oct 2014: Letters: Alan Johnson may be Labour’s most underused resource but he alone is not the answer to the individual and collective timidity that has beset the party

• Alan Johnson, politician: My family values

  10 Oct 2014: The former Labour home secretary recalls the ‘magnificent job’ his sister did looking after him following the death of their hardworking single mum at 42

• Please, Mister Postman review – a charming sequel from Alan Johnson

  9 Oct 2014:

  The followup to the former home secretary's This Boy will do nothing to calm the Labour party's current bout of AJ fever. By Helen Lewis

• Please, Mr Postman and Sailing Close to the Wind reviews – Alan Johnson and Dennis Skinner’s memoirs

  21 Sep 2014: Alan Johnson and Dennis Skinner’s memoirs provide intimate portraits of two very different working-class heroes, writes Chris Mullin

• Should Ed Miliband have joined the army?

  18 Sep 2014: Stephen Moss: Alan Johnson reckons Labour’s leader would have benefited from military service. But not all of us are officer material

• John Prescott: Alan Johnson should run Labour's election campaign

  12 Jul 2014: Former Labour deputy leader says Ed Miliband needs someone who can relate to people in the north and the south

• Ed Miliband should bring Alan Johnson into top team, says David Blunkett

  22 Jun 2014:

  Ex-home secretary standing down in 2015 says Labour leader should find room for 'oldies' and admits regret over ID cards

• Ed Miliband tumbles on – kept vaguely upright by stabs to the back and front

  19 Jun 2014: Labour leader shows the strain at launch of Institute for Public Policy Research's new report – The Condition of Britain

• Alan Johnson offers a glimpse of what politicians could be

  25 May 2014: Christina Patterson: The former shadow chancellor's touching memoir, This Boy, is a reminder of how far Britain has come – thanks to politics

• Alan Johnson on winning the Orwell book prize: 'I thought I was writing something people would appreciate'

  24 May 2014:

  Former home secretary Alan Johnson is that rare thing: a genuinely popular Westminster figure. He has now won two major awards for his first memoir, and there's more to come, he tells Mark Lawson

• Alan Johnson wins Orwell political writing prize for memoir This Boy

  21 May 2014:

  Alison Flood: Labour MP's book beats Charles Moore's book on Margaret Thatcher just days after taking home £10,000 Ondaatje award

• Alan Johnson's memoir of London slum childhood wins £10,000 Ondaatje prize

  20 May 2014:

  Judges praise ex-home secretary's This Boy for evocative language that helps readers 'smell the pie and mash' of postwar Notting Hill, writes Alison Flood

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