Alan Johnson to write book about his childhood

Hull West and Hessle MP Alan Johnson is to write a book about his childhood.

The senior Labour figure spent his earliest years in Southam Street, north Kensington in the 1950s.

He grew up there at the time of the Notting Hill race riots.

Mr Johnson was orphaned at the age of 12 and then raised by his sister, who was three years older, in a council flat. He left school aged 15 before becoming a postman at 18.

His spokesman said: "Alan Johnson is a politician outside the usual mould, whose personal story is both unusual and inspiring.

"His early years, marked by poverty, were not easy ones, yet he speaks of them with a stirring clarity, as he and his sister triumphed over any number of obstacles in what is, ultimately, a deeply uplifting tale."

The former Home Secretary quit as shadow chancellor in January amid claims his wife had an affair with his police bodyguard.

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