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Entries Tagged as ‘Harriet Harman’
January 27, 2010
Harriet misses the point
Prime Minister’s Questions today, with Harriet Harman deputising for the absent Gordon Brown.
January 6, 2010
Hoon and Hewitt’s helping hand
Certainly, by Gordon’s standards it was good, but Dorothy Parker it wasn’t. Nevertheless, his backbenchers rolled around, seemingly helpless with laughter.
January 1, 2010
Labour’s face
Harriet Harman will be one of the principal “faces” of Labour’s general election campaign.
November 26, 2009
Ignoring Harriet
Harriet Harman, was more than usually confused at Business Questions today, losing her notes and appearing generally flustered.
October 1, 2009
Quiet night in Brighton
The Sun’s announcement that it is ditching Labour and backing the Tories appears to have completely scuppered the Brighton conference.
Damage reduction exercises by the Prime Minister, Lord Mandelson and Harriet Harman have only made matters worse. The video of the final moments of Gordon Brown’s interview with Sky’s Adam Boulton reveals the full extent of his [...]
September 18, 2009
Harriet attacks lax sex tax
Fresh from her triumph in excluding Britain’s first female Prime Minister from a list of “women in power”, Equalities Tsarina Harriet Harman has decided to take on Britain’s booming lap dancing sector.
Speaking at “a meeting on the sex industry and business” (yes, honestly), Harman declared her intention to press the Treasury to disallow the cost [...]
August 3, 2009
Open rebellion
If open rebellion hasn’t yet broken out within the Parliamentary Labour party, it is fair to say that barricades are being manned – or, in the case of Harriet Harman, personned.
August 2, 2009
Harman’s arrogance
In her appearance on this morning’s Andrew Marr Show, Harriet Harman said:
“The Tories are insufferably arrogant about this, saying: ‘Labour’s already lost the next election; we’ve already won. We already have the keys of Downing Street.’
“I think that’s arrogant. I think that’s taking the voters for granted and I don’t believe at all that we’ve [...]
July 24, 2009
Harman makes matters worse
As if the result in Norwich North were not bad enough, Harriet Harman has added to Labour’s woes with what appears to be an off-the-cuff comment of remarkable stupidity:
This is how Politics Home reports it:
13.11 Also on the World at One, Harriet Harman calls the result “very disappointing”.
She says: “It is really a [...]
July 8, 2009
Harriet digs her heels in
Harriet Harman is doing herself no favours by adhering to the Prime Minister’s ludicrous and discredited line.
May 4, 2009
Kevin Maguire is right
I don’t think I’ve ever agreed with the Mirror’s usually uncritical Labour cheerleader, Kevin Maguire, before, but, to my chagrin, I concur with every word of his latest blog post.
Or perhaps he agrees with mine of yesterday.
May 4, 2009
Two ringing denials
Harriet Harman has just appeared on Today, back-pedalling like fury, and denying absolutely that she cherishes any personal leadership ambitions whatever – even if Alan Johnson throws his hat in the ring. We’ll see.
