Harriet Harman
Harriet Ruth Harman (born 30 July 1950) is a British politician who was the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 2007 to 2015. She was born and raised in West London. She is the Member of Parliament for the Camberwell and Peckham constituency in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. She was first elected for Peckham in a by-election in 1982.
Career
She has held cabinet posts in the Labour governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. Following Brown's resignation as Labour leader on 11 May 2010, Harman was the acting leader of the Labour Party until Ed Miliband was elected on September 25, 2010. Until 2015 she was the Deputy Leader and ex-officio member of the Shadow Cabinet. She was also Shadow Deputy Prime Minister and Shadow Secretary of State for International Development.[1]
On February 24 2014, Harman's was on Newsnight to say that she did not support the Paedophile Information Exchange.[2] Harman would not say sorry.
Personal life
Harman is a feminist. She married Jack Dromey in 1982. The couple have two sons and a daughter. Dromey died in 2022.
Harriet Harman Media
Appearance at the Salford International Media Festival.
Official portrait of Ms Harriet Harman
References
- ↑ Sparrow, Andrew (8 October 2010). "Shadow cabinet appointments – as it happened". The Guardian (London). http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/oct/08/shadow-cabinet-labour-ed-miliband?showallcomments=true.
- ↑ Greenslade, Roy (25 February 2014). "Harriet Harman took too long to apologise over Daily Mail's paedophile allegations" – via www.theguardian.com.