Melanie Johnson - Post Parliamentary Work

Post Parliamentary Work

In 2006 Johnson took the position of Deputy Chair on the Customer Impact Panel, an Association of British Insurers organisation dedicated to improving the customers' experience of the insurance industry.

In 2009 Johnson was named Chair of the UK Cards Association, a payments industry body, in which capacity she has attempted to have scientific research on credit card security withdrawn from public availability.

She featured on the Labour's shortlist for the 2007 Sedgefield by-election but failed to be selected as candidate. She also made the all-female longlist for the Walthamstow seat in 2008 but was less successful and did not make the shortlist. In 2009 she made a third attempt at becoming a Labour parliamentary candidate by featuring on a controversial all-woman shortlist for the Erith and Thamesmead constituency. The contest was taken over by the central Labour party as the local party was considered incapable of handling the process fairly, leading to complaints that non local candidates were being favoured. Further controversy came when it was revealed one of the ballot boxes had been tampered with at Labour's head office.