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"My priorities will be to save the pound and push for British jobs for British workers. "I'll campaign for newcomers to Britain to learn English and seek to persuade them that integration is absolutely vital to the country's future."
The Rt Hon Alan Johnson MP is the Secretary of State for Health. He joined the Department of Health in June 2007.Alan Johnson has had a long career as a Government minister. His previous roles were:• Secretary of State for Education and Skills• Secretary of State at the Department of Trade and Industry• Secretary of State at the Department of Work and Pensions• Minister of State for Lifelong Learning, Further and Higher Education• Minister of State for Employment Relations and Regions (DTI)• Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Competitiveness (DTI).Alan Johnson was born in 1950 and was educated at Sloane Grammar School, Chelsea. He became a postman in 1968, and joined the Union of Communication Workers at the same time.He held a number of posts representing employees from 1976 and was elected to the National Executive Council in 1981. He became General Secretary in 1992 and Joint General Secretary of the Communications Workers’ Union (CWU) from 1995 to 1997.He was a Member of the General Council, TUC from 1994 to 1995 and a member of the Labour Party NEC from 1995 to 1997.Alan Johnson was a member of the Trade and Industry Select Committee until he was made Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Financial Secretary at the Treasury in December 1997, and then to the Paymaster General in January 1999.
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