Harriet Harman successfully took a case, Harman v United Kingdom, to the European Court of Human Rights, which found Havers had breached her right to freedom of expression.
59 Facts About Harriet Harman
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Harriet Harman was elected as MP for Peckham at a 1982 by-election.
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Harriet Harman was made a shadow social services minister in 1984 and a shadow health minister in 1987.
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Harriet Harman ran in the 2007 deputy leadership election and defeated five other candidates, ultimately defeating Secretary of State for Health, Alan Johnson, by a narrow margin.
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Harriet Harman subsequently served as Shadow Deputy Prime Minister, combining the position with that of Shadow International Development Secretary from 2010 to 2011 and then Shadow Culture, Media and Sport Secretary from 2011 to 2015.
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In 2014, Harriet Harman expressed regret after it was revealed that the Paedophile Information Exchange had affiliated status within the NCCL while she had been legal officer.
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Harriet Harman announced that she would resign as Deputy Leader, prompting a concurrent deputy leadership election.
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Harriet Harman remains in the House of Commons as a backbencher.
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Harriet Ruth Harman was born at 108 Harley Street in London, and privately educated at St Paul's Girls' School.
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Harriet Harman is a daughter of John Bishop Harman, a Harley Street doctor, and his wife Anna, a barrister, who gave up practising when she had children and who was the Liberal Party candidate for Hertford in the 1964 general election.
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Harriet Harman is a great-great-niece of the Liberal statesman Joseph Chamberlain, and is a cousin once removed of former Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and former Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain.
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Harriet Harman is related to Liberal politician Richard Chamberlain, MP.
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Harriet Harman gained a 2:1 BA in Politics from the University of York.
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Harriet Harman was thus the subject of numerous parliamentary questions and debates before she became an MP, including at a PMQ in February 1982.
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Harriet Harman subsequently took the case to the European Court of Human Rights, successfully arguing Havers had breached her right to freedom of expression.
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Harriet Harman was later involved in a European Court of Human Rights case against MI5.
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In 1984, Harriet Harman became a Shadow Social Services minister and served as a Shadow Health minister in 1987.
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Harriet Harman was given the task of reforming the Welfare State.
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Harriet Harman headed up New Labour's controversial cut to single parent benefit despite the majority of those affected being women.
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Harriet Harman voted with the party on all but a few instances during its period in government.
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Harriet Harman made a return to the front bench following the 2001 general election, with her appointment to the office of Solicitor General, thus becoming the first female Solicitor General.
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On 16 March 2006, Harriet Harman relinquished her ministerial responsibilities for electoral administration and reform of the House of Lords.
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Harriet Harman 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.
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Harriet Harman announced her intention to stand for Deputy Leadership of the Labour Party when John Prescott stood down.
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Harriet Harman commissioned an opinion poll which found that she would be the most electorally popular potential deputy leader, a point she used in her campaign.
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Harriet Harman failed to report some donations and loans on time, and was subject to an Electoral Commission inquiry for breaches of electoral law.
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On 24 June 2007, in a close contest Harriet Harman was elected Deputy Leader.
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Harriet Harman was known as a long-term supporter of Gordon Brown and is regarded as a personal friend.
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On 28 June 2007, after she became Deputy Leader of the Labour Party and Brown was appointed Prime Minister, Harriet Harman joined Brown's Cabinet as Leader of the House of Commons, Lord Privy Seal and Minister for Women and Equality, and was Chairman of the Labour Party.
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Unlike the previous Deputy Leader, John Prescott, Harriet Harman was not made Deputy Prime Minister.
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Harriet 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.
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On 1 April 2008 the Daily Mail reported that Harriet Harman had decided to wear a kevlar-reinforced stab vest while touring her Peckham constituency under police guard.
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In June 2009, Sir Michael Scholar, head of the UK Statistics Authority, wrote to Harriet Harman to warn her that different headline figures used by the ONS and Government Equalities Office with regards to pay differentiation between men and women might undermine public trust in official statistics.
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In January 2009, Harriet Harman proposed a rule change to exempt MPs' expenses from the Freedom of Information Act.
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Harriet Harman's proposal was withdrawn when the Conservative Party said they would vote against, and in light of an online campaign by mySociety.
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In December 2010, it emerged that Harriet Harman was amongst 40 MPs who had secretly repaid wrongly claimed expenses between 2008 and 2010.
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Harriet Harman allegedly blocked a series of votes to liberalise Britain's abortion laws via the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill.
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Harriet Harman commissioned a report on allowing political parties to draw up all-black shortlists designed to increase the number of black MPs in Westminster.
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Inside the Labour Party, Harriet Harman has said she does "not agree with all-male leaderships" because men "cannot be left to run things on their own"; and that, consequently, one of Labour's top two posts should always be held by a woman.
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Harriet Harman had stated that the collapse of Lehman Brothers might have been averted had it been 'Lehman Sisters'.
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Harriet Harman nominated Diane Abbott, MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington, to prevent the election from being all male.
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In 2010, Harriet Harman referred to Danny Alexander as a "ginger rodent" in a speech to the Labour Party conference.
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In 2011, Harriet Harman was moved to become Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport.
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Harriet Harman denied allegations that she had supported the Paedophile Information Exchange when the advocacy group was affiliated with Liberty, while she was the pressure group's Legal Officer from 1978 to 1982.
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The Guardian states that in an NCCL briefing note dated 1978, Harriet 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 Harriet 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.
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Ed Miliband backed Harriet Harman and stated that she had "huge decency and integrity".
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Harriet Harman made the decision that Labour would vote for having a European Union membership referendum, reversing Labour's pre-election opposition to an EU referendum.
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On 10 September 2019, Harriet 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.
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Harriet Harman withdrew from the vote after the second ballot, having the lowest votes of all of the surviving candidates.
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In December 2021, Harriet Harman announced she would be stepping down as an MP at the next general election.
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Harriet Harman supported an amendment to the Domestic Abuse Bill 2019 to implement the verdict of R v Brown.
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Harriet Harman wrote to the Attorney General to complain about an unduly lenient sentence of a man whose partner died while engaging in erotic strangulation.
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Harriet Harman was portrayed by Deborah Findlay in the 2015 Channel 4 television film Coalition.
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Harriet 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.
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Harriet Harman has owned a number of houses and properties, including her home in Herne Hill, south London and a house in Suffolk.
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In late 1988, Harriet 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.
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In 2012, Harriet Harman was awarded the Freedom of the Borough of Southwark.
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Harriet Harman paid the fine several months late and avoided appearing at Ipswich magistrates court.
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In January 2010 Harriet 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.