What is Harriet Harman?
{{refimprove|date=August 2010}} [[File:Official portrait of Rt Hon Harriet Harman QC MP crop 2.jpg|thumb|Harriet Harman]] '''Harriet Ruth Harman''' (born 30 July 1950) is a British politician who was the Deputy Leader of the [[Labour Party (UK)|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 [[wikt:elect|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 [[Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet|Shadow Cabinet]]. She was also [[Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Shadow Deputy Prime Minister]] and [[Shadow Secretary of State for International Development]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/oct/08/shadow-cabinet-labour-ed-miliband?showallcomments=true |title=Shadow cabinet appointments – as it happened |date=8 October 2010 |work=The Guardian | location=London | first=Andrew | last=Sparrow}}</ref> On February 24 2014, Harman's was on ''Newsnight'' to say that she did not support the [[Paedophile Information Exchange]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2014/feb/25/harrietharman-dailymail|title=Harriet Harman took too long to apologise over Daily Mail's paedophile allegations|first=Roy|last=Greenslade|date=25 February 2014|publisher=|via=www.theguardian.com}}</ref> 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. ==References== {{Reflist}} {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Harman, Harriet}} [[Category:British feminists]] [[Categ