POLL: Should Labour bring Alan Johnson back?
Former cabinet minister David Blunkett has said that Ed Miliband should bring back some “oldies” to his top team, specifically the former postman turned politician Alan Johnson.
Johnson quit his role as shadow chancellor in 2010 and has been on the backbenches ever since.
But is it now the time to bring him back? Could Labour benefit from having someone with a more ‘ordinary’ background in the cabinet, or would it be too much like a return to the past? Let us know by voting in our poll.
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12 Responses to “POLL: Should Labour bring back Alan Johnson?”
jack johnson
Alan Johnson is a total Blairite so should not have influence on our Party.It’s the Blairites who
stab Ed Miliband in the back.New Labour lost the support of the working class as they are neocons= Thatcherites who have no place in our Party.
jaydeepee
Johnson is easily to the right of Tories like Zac Goldsmith. So, it’s a no from me.
Selohesra
AJ is one of the few Labour MPs who come across as decent sorts – the sort you would happily go out for a beer with. He may be a Blairite or on the right of the party but surely a range of views is healthy. Ed needs some more normal people in his team.
AlanGiles
Johnson is yet another example of the finger-wagging, authoritarian, do-as-you’re-told discredited Blairite past, in his case instead of being delivered with the usual Oxbridge voice, with a cheek chappy accent. Either is unacceptable, and I wouldn’t take advice from the New Labour Pooteresque diarist.
AlanGiles
“He may be a Blairite or on the right of the party but surely a range of views is healthy. ”
Reeves, Hunt, Cooper, Balls….how many more right wingers does he want or need?