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
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
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
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
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
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
1974-81: local officer, Slough UCW; 1993-95: general council member, TUC; 1993-97: executive member, PTT International; 1993-97: director, Unity Bank Trust; 1995-97: joint general secretary, CWU