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Harriet was first elected MP for Peckham (now Camberwell and Peckham) in 1982. The MP Harry Lambourne died in 1982, causing a by-election. Harriet was elected – when she was 7 months pregnant. At that time, Labour had 268 MPs compared to Tory 339 MPs and she came into Parliament as one of only 10 Labour women MPs.
Photography by Baldo Sciacca. "There are some things only women MPs can do, and without women, they will not be done,” Harriet Harman says serenely from behind her round office table overlooking ...
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Dec 7, 2021 · First published on Tue 7 Dec 2021 04.21 EST. Harriet Harman, Labour’s former deputy leader, has said she will step down at the next election after around 40 years in parliament. The mother of ...
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Sep 7, 2023 · Thu 7 Sep 2023 13.57 EDT. Last modified on Fri 8 Sep 2023 04.52 EDT. Harriet Harman has emerged as the frontrunner to take over the vacant chair of parliament’s standards watchdog, with the only ...
Jan 12, 2018 · Harriet Harman in 1982, when she was Labour candidate in the Peckham byelection. Photograph: PA Archive “This pay gap information comes at a time where women are not minded any more to accept ...
Dec 7, 2021 · 7 December 2021. PA Media. Harriet Harman entered the House of Commons in 1982 and served two brief stints as Labour leader. Veteran Labour MP Harriet Harman has announced she will stand down at ...
S enior MP Harriet Harman was on campus last Thursday evening to commemorate the achievements of pioneering Yorkshire MP Alice Bacon who in 1945 became Yorkshire’s first female MP. Ms Harman’s lecture, From Pioneers to Parity? 100 Years of Female Suffrage, was given in the Great Hall to an audience including current students, staff and ...
