Harriet Harman
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The Baroness Harman | |||||||||||||||||||
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 Official portrait, 2020 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Leader of the Opposition | |||||||||||||||||||
| In office 8 May 2015 – 12 September 2015 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Monarch | Elizabeth II | ||||||||||||||||||
| Prime Minister | David Cameron | ||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Ed Miliband | ||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Jeremy Corbyn | ||||||||||||||||||
| In office 11 May 2010 – 25 September 2010 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Monarch | Elizabeth II | ||||||||||||||||||
| Prime Minister | David Cameron | ||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | David Cameron | ||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Ed Miliband | ||||||||||||||||||
| Deputy Leader of the Labour Party | |||||||||||||||||||
| In office 24 June 2007 – 12 September 2015 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Leader | Gordon Brown Ed Miliband | ||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | John Prescott | ||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Tom Watson | ||||||||||||||||||
| Leader of the House of Commons Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal | |||||||||||||||||||
| In office 28 June 2007 – 11 May 2010 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Prime Minister | Gordon Brown | ||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Jack Straw | ||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | George Young | ||||||||||||||||||
| Secretary of State for Social Security | |||||||||||||||||||
| In office 3 May 1997 – 27 July 1998 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Prime Minister | Tony Blair | ||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Peter Lilley | ||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Alistair Darling | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | Harriet Ruth Harman 30 July 1950 Marylebone, London, England | ||||||||||||||||||
| Political party | Labour | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Children | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Residence | Herne Hill, London Suffolk | ||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | University of York (BA) | ||||||||||||||||||
Harriet Ruth Harman, Baroness Harman PC KC (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
[change | change source]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
[change | change source]Harman is a feminist. She married Jack Dromey in 1982. The couple have two sons and a daughter. Dromey died in 2022.
References
[change | change source]- ↑ Sparrow, Andrew (8 October 2010). "Shadow cabinet appointments – as it happened". The Guardian. London.
- ↑ Greenslade, Roy (25 February 2014). "Harriet Harman took too long to apologise over Daily Mail's paedophile allegations" – via www.theguardian.com.
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