Harriet Harman
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In office 24 June 2007 – 12 September 2015 | |||||||||||||||
Leader |
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Succeeded by | Tom Watson | ||||||||||||||
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Camberwell and Peckham Peckham (1982–1997) | |||||||||||||||
Assumed office 28 October 1982 | |||||||||||||||
Preceded by | Harry Lamborn | ||||||||||||||
Majority | 33,780 (59.8%) | ||||||||||||||
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Born | Harriet Ruth Harman 30 July 1950 Marylebone, London, England | ||||||||||||||
Political party | Labour | ||||||||||||||
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Children | 3 | ||||||||||||||
Parent(s) | John B. Harman Anna Spicer | ||||||||||||||
Relatives | See list
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Residence(s) | Herne Hill, London, England Suffolk, England | ||||||||||||||
Alma mater | Goodricke College, York | ||||||||||||||
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Website | Official website | ||||||||||||||
Harriet Ruth Harman
Born in London to a doctor and a barrister, Harman was privately educated at
Harman was elected as MP for
Upon defeat at the
Early life and career
Harriet Ruth Harman was born at 108 Harley Street in London, and privately educated at
Harman gained a
Harman was later involved in a European Court of Human Rights case against MI5. During a 1984 television interview by Cathy Massiter, it was revealed personal files were held by MI5 on Harman and on the (by then former-) General Secretary of the NCCL, Patricia Hewitt.[9] They successfully argued that there had been an infringement of their rights because MI5 was not a legally constituted and democratically accountable organisation, this being the minimum standard in democracy.[9] The success of the case led to enactment of the Security Service Act 1989.[9]
Opposition Member of Parliament
Harry Lamborn, the Labour MP for Peckham, died on 21 August 1982. In the subsequent by-election held on 28 October 1982, Harman was elected to succeed Lamborn with 11,349 votes (50.34%), a majority of 3,931 over Social Democratic candidate Dick Taverne, a former Labour MP for Lincoln. The Conservative Party candidate was John Redwood, who came third, and went on to be elected MP for Wokingham in 1987.
In 1984, Harman became a Shadow Social Services minister and served as a Shadow Health minister in 1987. Following the
Labour in Government
Under Tony Blair
Following Labour's victory in the
Harman made a return to the front bench following the
Following the
On 16 March 2006, Harman relinquished her ministerial responsibilities for electoral administration and reform of the House of Lords. She stated that this was to avoid any potential conflict of interest after her husband Jack Dromey, the Treasurer of the Labour Party, announced that he would be investigating a number of loans made to the Labour Party that had not been disclosed to party officers. She retained her other responsibilities.[19]
Deputy Leadership election
Harman announced her intention to stand for Deputy Leadership of the Labour Party when John Prescott stood down.[20] She commissioned an opinion poll which found that she would be the most electorally popular potential deputy leader, a point she used in her campaign.[21][22]
While she supported the Iraq War, during the Deputy Leadership campaign, she said that she would not have done so had she known about the lack of concrete evidence of weapons of mass destruction.[23][24]
Harman did not have the support of any major unions, and helped to fund her campaign by taking out a personal loan of £10,000[25] and a £40,000 extension to her mortgage.[26] Harman failed to report some donations and loans on time, and was subject to an Electoral Commission inquiry for breaches of electoral law. The commission said that her "failure to report on time is a serious matter" though the case was not handed over to the police.[27]
On 24 June 2007, in a close contest Harman was elected Deputy Leader.[28] Alan Johnson had led in all but the first of the previous rounds, but when second-preference votes had been redistributed after the fourth round, Harman as elected with 50.43% of the vote to Johnson's 49.56%[29]
Campaign donations
In November 2007, it emerged that
Under Gordon Brown
Harman was known as a long-term supporter of
When Harman, as Leader of the House of Commons, stood in for
Harman attacked the Conservative Party at the Labour Party Conference 2007, referring to them as the "nasty party" and suggesting that there would be little competition at the next election.[32]
On 1 April 2008 the Daily Mail reported that Harman had decided to wear a kevlar-reinforced stab vest while touring her Peckham constituency under police guard. On 2 April The Guardian relayed information from the Metropolitan Police that "the type of Met Vest she wore over her jacket protected her from knife attacks and bullets, and, for her at least, was optional".[33] Harman compared the decision to wearing a hard hat while touring a building site, which led the BBC's John Humphrys to respond, during an interview for BBC Radio 4, "You wear a hard hat on a building site because... there is the danger that something might drop on your head. You don't need to wear a bullet-proof vest on the streets of London, do you!" Harman told the BBC that the neighbourhood police team she was with put on their stab vests and gave her one to wear as well.[34]
In April 2008, Harman's blog was hacked and changed to state that she had joined the Conservative Party. Harman later admitted when questioned by Sky News that the incident was a result of her using "Harriet" and "Harman" as her username and password.[35] The hacker was Conservative Kemi Badenoch, who was elected as MP for Saffron Walden in 2017. Badenoch confessed to the hacking in an April 2018 interview with Core Politics and later offered Harman an apology, which she accepted.[36][37][38][39]
Use of statistics
During the
In June 2009,
Expenses
In January 2009, Harman proposed a rule change to exempt MPs' expenses from the
In December 2010, it emerged that Harman was amongst 40 MPs who had secretly repaid wrongly claimed expenses between 2008 and 2010. In November 2010, Harman's parliamentary private secretary Ian Lavery had blocked a motion designed to allow the repayments to be made public.[46]
Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008
Harman allegedly blocked a series of votes to liberalise Britain's abortion laws via the
Equality Bill
As part of a proposed
It was argued by critics that these changes could face a challenge under Article 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, race, colour, language, religion and on several other criteria.[53] Michael Millar, writing in The Spectator, was of the opinion that "the Equality Bill before parliament today gives employers the right to choose an ethnic minority candidate or female candidate over a white male, specifically because they are an ethnic minority or female."[54]
Harman also commissioned a report on allowing political parties to draw up all-black shortlists
Return to Opposition
Following the resignation of Gordon Brown as Prime Minister and Leader of the Labour Party on 11 May 2010, Harman automatically became the temporary leader of the party as well as the Leader of the Opposition, entitling her to the salary and government car that come with the role. Although she was informally described in the media as 'Acting' Leader, she was fully Leader by the terms of the party's constitution, albeit on a temporary basis, as was the case with Margaret Beckett in 1994.[61]
Following Brown's resignation, she quickly announced that she would remain Deputy Leader rather than standing for election as Leader. Her only public explanation was the assertion that: "You can't run for leader at the same time as being deputy leader".[62]
She nominated Diane Abbott, MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington, to prevent the election from being all male. But she nonetheless asserted her intention to remain neutral throughout the contest and said, "This is a very crucial period and we have got five fantastic candidates. All of them would make excellent leaders of the party."[63]
Following
Paedophilia support allegations and age of consent scandal
In March 2014, an article from the Daily Mail exposed that a 1979 letter from paedophile group supporter contained Ms Harman's initials.[67] Harman denied allegations that she had supported the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE) when the advocacy group was affiliated with Liberty, while she was the pressure group's Legal Officer from 1978 to 1982. Both the Daily Mail and The Daily Telegraph also claimed that Jack Dromey MP (her partner) and former Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt had offered support to apologists for the sexual abuse of children while they were working for NCCL. The Guardian also states that in an NCCL briefing note dated 1978, Harman urged amendments to a 1978 Child Protection Bill declaring that "images of children should only be considered pornographic if it could be proven the subject suffered", which Harman says was an argument intended to protect from "unintended consequences" such as parents being prosecuted for taking pictures of their children on the beach or in the bath.[68]
Most of the controversy comes after the NCCL passed motion 39 in support of PIE's rights.
Motion 39 stated:
This AGM reaffirms the right of free discussion and freedom to hold meetings for all organisations and individuals doing so within the law. Accordingly, whilst reaffirming the NCCL policy on the age of consent and the rights of children; particularly the need to protect those of prepubertal age, this AGM condemns the physical and other attacks on those who have discussed or attempted to discuss paedophilia, and reaffirms the NCCL's condemnation of harassment and unlawful attacks on such persons.[69]
In a television interview, Harman said she had "nothing to apologise for," stating: "I very much regret that this vile organisation, PIE, ever existed and that it ever had anything to do with NCCL, but it did not affect my work at NCCL."[70] Harman stated that while she did support the equalisation of the age of consent for gay men she had never campaigned for the age of consent to go below the age of 16 and accused the Daily Mail of trying to make her "guilty by way of association".[71] Ed Miliband backed Harman and stated that she had "huge decency and integrity".[71]
2015 general election
In the 2015 general election, Harman lead the Woman to Woman campaign involved a pink battle bus visiting constituencies.[72] Following the poor election result and Ed Miliband's resignation, Harman again became acting leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition after announcing she would stand down from the role once a leadership election had taken place.[73] While interim leader, she made the decision for Labour to abstain, rather than oppose, the Welfare Reform and Work Bill 2015, leading to 48 Labour MPs defying the whip.[74] Harman also made the decision that Labour would vote for having a European Union membership referendum, reversing Labour's pre-election opposition to an EU referendum.[75][76] After standing down, she became Chair of the Joint Committee on Human Rights in October 2015.[77][78]
As the holder of the record as longest-ever continuously serving female MP in the
On 10 September 2019, Harman announced that she would stand to be the next Speaker of the House of Commons following the announcement by the current Speaker John Bercow of his intention to resign on 31 October 2019.[80] She withdrew from the vote after the second ballot, having the lowest votes of all of the surviving candidates.
In December 2021, Harman announced she would be stepping down as an MP at the next general election.[81]
View on S&M
Harman supported an amendment to the Domestic Abuse Bill 2019 to implement the verdict of
Harman wrote to the Attorney General to complain about an
Investigation into Boris Johnson
Harman chaired the Privileges Committee of the House of Commons over the investigation into Boris Johnson's breach of lockdown rules during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In popular culture
Harman was portrayed by Deborah Findlay in the 2015 Channel 4 television film Coalition.[85]
Personal life
Harman married Jack Dromey in 1982 in Brent, after meeting him on the picket line of the Grunwick dispute in 1977; she was legal advisor to the Grunwick Strike Committee.[18] They had three children: Harry (born February 1983), Joseph (born November 1984) and Amy (born January 1987). Harry and Amy have Harman's surname. [86] Labour colleague Patricia Hewitt is godmother to one of her children.[18] She sent Harry to the grant-maintained Roman Catholic London Oratory School and Joseph to the state selective St Olave's Grammar School, Orpington. [86]
Harman has owned a number of houses and properties, including her home in Herne Hill, south London and a house in Suffolk.[87][88]
Harman is a committed
In late 1988, Harman was absent from the Commons for some time and on 26 December it was reported that she was suffering pneumonia brought on by psittacosis.[93]
In 2012, Harman was awarded the
Motoring convictions
In 2003, Harman was fined £400 and banned from driving for seven days after being convicted of driving at 99 mph (159 km/h) on a motorway, 29 mph (47 km/h) above the speed limit.[96]
In 2007, Harman was issued with a £60
In January 2010 Harman pleaded guilty to driving without due care and attention in relation to an incident on 3 July 2009 where she struck another vehicle whilst driving using a mobile phone, she admitted the offence in court.[99][100] Harman was fined £350, ordered to pay £70 costs, a £15 victim surcharge and had three points added to her licence.[101] Road safety organisation Brake criticised the leniency of the punishment and decision to drop the charge of driving whilst using a mobile phone.[102] The judge defended the decision stating: "Ms Harman's guilty plea to driving without due care and attention included her admitting that she had been using a mobile phone at the time".[103]
See also
- Shadow Cabinet of Ed Miliband
- Shadow Cabinet of Tony Blair
- Shadow Cabinet of John Smith
- Shadow Cabinet elections: 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, and 1996
Notes
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Publications
- Sex Discrimination in Schools: How to Fight it by Harriet Harman, 1978, Civil Liberties Trust ISBN 0-901108-73-1
- Justice Deserted: Subversion of the Jury by Harriet Harman and ISBN 0-901108-79-0
- Violence Against Social Workers: The Implications for Practice by Dan Norris, foreword by Harriet Harman, Jessica Kingsley Publishers ISBN 1-85302-041-9
- The Family Way: A New Approach to Policy Making by Harriet Harman et al., 1990, Institute for Public Policy Research ISBN 1-872452-15-9
- The Century Gap: 20th Century Man/21st Century Woman by Harriet Harman, 1993, Vermilion ISBN 0-09-177819-0
- Winning for Women by Harriet Harman and Deborah Mattinson, 2000, Fabian Society ISBN 0-7163-0596-8
- Women with Attitude by Susan Vinnicombe, John Bank, foreword by Harriet Harman, 2002, Routledge ISBN 0-415-28742-1
- A Woman's Work by Harriet Harman, 2017, Allen Lane ISBN 978-0-241-27494-1
External links
- Harriet Harman Official constituency website
- Southwark Labour Archived 23 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine
- Profile at Parliament of the United Kingdom
- Contributions in Parliament at Hansard
- Contributions in Parliament at Hansard 1803–2005
- Voting record at Public Whip
- Record in Parliament at TheyWorkForYou
- Video clips
- Harman on Tory 'toff' campaign BBC News, 18 May 2008
- Appearances on C-SPAN