Harriet Harman
Harriet Harman
Harriet Ruth Harman, QCis a British lawyer and Labour Party politician who has been a Member of Parliamentsince 1982, first for Peckham, and then for its successor constituency of Camberwell and Peckham since 1997. She has served in various Cabinet and Shadow Cabinet positions and, in her role as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, she was twice the Acting Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition: from May to September 2010 and from May to September...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth30 July 1950
educational people generations
I'm afraid you gave up the right to pontificate on social mobility when you abolished educational maintenance allowance [EMA], trebled tuition fees and betrayed a generation of young people.
running country men
In a country where women regard themselves as equal, they are not prepared to see men running the show themselves.
party privilege
Leading the party is a privilege not a right.
party views progressive
The Labour Party is the sister Party for the Democrats and their progressive views are the ones that we are most aligned with.
change strong political
Not all civil servants admire strong political leadership. But if you want to change things for the better you need strong political leadership.
jobs mean people
For many young people, social mobility now means a bus down to the job centre.
party office majority
Jeremy [Corbyn] earned the right to take up the leadership of the party with a big majority. But he has failed and he has no right or mandate to stay in office despite his failure and take the party down with him.
party believe feminist
I am in the Labour Party because I am a feminist. I am in the Labour Party because I believe in equality.
running team men
I think a balanced team of men and women makes better decisions. That's one of the reasons why I was prepared to run for deputy leader.
running men thinking
I don't agree with all-male leaderships. Men cannot be left to run things on their own. I think it's a thoroughly bad thing to have men-only leadership.