Alan Johnson: “Utterly charming. Delusional”

Biography

Nobody has a bad word to say about Alan Johnson—not something that can be said of every former health secretary. He held the job for two years (2007-09), during which the mistreatment of patients at Stafford Hospital came to light. His advice to incoming health secretaries: “Say nothing for a month, and defer to the clinicians.” His childhood poverty in London was described in his bestselling memoir, This Boy, which the Times …