Diana Johnson

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Diana Ruth Johnson (born 25 July 1966, Northwich) is a Labour Party Member of Parliament and former member of the London Assembly.

Johnson is a barrister and was a councillor in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets from 1994 to 2002, serving as Chair of social services. She stood unsuccessfully in Brentwood and Ongar at the 2001 general election.

She became a member of the London Assembly on 1 March, 2003 after the resignation of Trevor Phillips who became chair of the Commission for Racial Equality, having been next on the list of London-wide members at the 2000 election. She did not stand for re-election in 2004. In May 2005, she was elected Labour Member of Parliament for the Kingston upon Hull North constituency in place of Kevin McNamara.

In November 2005 Diana Johnson was appointed as a Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister of State for Pensions Reform, Stephen Timms.

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