The Labour grandee turned memoirist on his musical youth and his problem with Corbyn
Alan Johnson was delighted recently to be described as an “author and former politician”. The 69-year-old laughs: “You can put that on my gravestone, that’s fine.” A Labour MP for 20 years and cabinet minister , Johnson’s first book, This Boy, came out in 2013. It won both the Ondaatje and Orwell prizes. That, and three subsequent memoirs, have sold more than half a million copies.
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