The Centre

Speech by Harriet Harman MP, Deputy Leader and Chair of the UK Labour Party introduced by Glenys Kinnock MEP.

Harriet Harman was appointed Leader of the House of Commons, Lord Privy Seal and Minister for Women and Equality on 28 June 2007. Having obtained a degree in Politics from York University, she qualified as a solicitor and her first job as a solicitor was at Brent Law Centre in 1974. First elected MP for Peckham (now Camberwell and Peckham) in 1982 into a Parliament of 97% men, she set up the first Parliamentary Labour Party Women's Group. Her fight for ‘women-only shortlists' led to the election of 101 Labour women MPs in 1997