Entries Tagged as ‘Harriet Harman’

March 15, 2010

Whither Adonis?

I suspect that Lord Adonis’s political career is unlikely to advance significantly further.

March 11, 2010

Infallible Gordon

No prospect of an admission of fallibility from Gordon.

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.

June 26, 2009

Spilt milk

The failure of Dairy Farmers of Britain demands further investigation.

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.