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Ex-ministers press Sunak on ‘persecution’ of carers who broke earnings rules

Published: 12 Apr 2024

Senior Labour figures call for ‘life-transforming’ Sure Start policy

Published: 8 Apr 2024

Making a Splash! The politicians who couldn’t say no to reality TV

Several current and former UK MPs have risked derision by appearing on shows such as I’m a Celebrity …

Published: 1 Nov 2022

Suella Braverman is shortest-serving home secretary at 43 days

Which politicians trail Braverman as shortest-serving home secretaries in modern times?

Published: 19 Oct 2022

Alan Johnson accidentally ate the Queen’s corgis’ biscuits, book reveals

Former Labour health secretary also tells author monarch was ‘good company’ and talked about Diana

Published: 17 Mar 2022

From Bill Clinton to Robert Peston: celebrity crime fiction on trial

After you’ve written your memoir, publishers these days want anyone famous to write crime novels. We put 10 of the most well-known in the dock

Published: 17 Dec 2021

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Books interview Alan Johnson: ‘John Betjeman was wrong about Slough’

The former health secretary and acclaimed memoirist on his rock’n’roll past, how the Litvinenko poisoning inspired his new thriller, and how he’d have handled Covid

Published: 21 Aug 2021

What a public inquiry into Covid must cover

Letters: Wendy Savage sheds light on a people’s inquiry that is already under way, plus letters by Neil Hornsby, Dr Richard Carter and Alan Marsden

Published: 19 Mar 2021

Who'd be a health secretary? Five former incumbents on the toughest gig in politics

With Matt Hanco*ck under fire, former health secretaries discuss their highs and lows and how they dealt with pandemics

Published: 17 May 2020

A Labour defeat, yes, but this was not nearly as bad as 1983

Andy Beckett

The party’s policies on the big issues of the day could sow the seeds for future success, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

Published: 19 Dec 2019

Elmo's antics and Alan Johnson's rage: strangest moments of election night

Published: 13 Dec 2019

Gravitas, surprises and John Bercow: TV election night coverage

Published: 7 Dec 2019

Further reading As David Cameron tells all, a guide to the best political memoirs

To coincide with publication of For the Record, a round-up of the best career reckonings by politicians

Published: 19 Sep 2019

Labour heading for Brexit strategy showdown in Brighton

Activists and MPs set for battle over party’s official Brexit line at next week’s conference

Published: 18 Sep 2019

The Labour grandee turned memoirist on his musical youth and his problem with Corbyn

Published: 3 Aug 2019

May’s cynical Brexit vote delay all about her keeping power

Letters: Guardian readers share their views on the trials and tribulations of the Conservatives’ Brexit plans

Published: 11 Dec 2018

How Gordon Brown contributed to Tory austerity policy

Letters from David Purdy, David Beake, Martin London, Bernard Watson, DBC Reed and Adrian Berridge

Published: 14 Sep 2018

ID cards were never the answer to illegal migration, and they aren’t now

Conrad Landin

The Windrush scandal has led former Labour home secretaries to resurrect a forgotten policy, writes Conrad Landin

Published: 2 May 2018

Into the classical music bear-pit: Alan Johnson goes to the Proms

Growing up in North Kensington Alan Johnson used to play around the Albert Hall but never went inside. 60 years later we sent the former home secretary along to experience the Proms for the first time. What did he make of it?

Published: 3 Sep 2017