John Friary had campaigned with Harriet Harman 'I would love to be your father figure,' he told '15-year-old girl' A Labour councillor who campaigned with Harriet Harman is facing jail after he today admitted sending a '15-year-old schoolgirl' graphic online messages. John Friary begged the man he thought was a teenager for racy pictures and arranged to meet 'her' for sex after she contacted him on the internet. The 53-year-old thought he was exchanging explicit online chat with a teenager...Read Full Story
Helping hand: Harriet Harman gives some advice to one of her Muslim constituents -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Labour's welfare policies were in disarray last night after Harriet Harman said it should be made easier for immigrants to send benefit payments to relatives abroad. At a meeting in her constituency, the party’s deputy leader praised claimants who funnel taxpayers’ cash to Africa as ‘hidden...Read Full Story
That epitome of banal, politically correct inanity, even by the standards of the Labour Party, its party’s deputy leader Harriet (Harridan) Harman (pictured above), was yesterday forced to apologise for branding a senior coalition government minister a “ginger rodent”. Ms (Ms, as befits Harriet the arch man-hater) Harman admitted she had been “wrong” to use the description about Liberal Democrat Chief Treasury Secretary Danny Alexander (pictured below) in a speech over the weekend.
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By Christopher Hope, Whitehall Editor Published: 7:30AM GMT 02 March 2010 Only 5 per cent of staff at the Government Equalities Office - run by Harriet Harman - are part-time workers, compared to 42 per cent of operative women and twelve per cent of operative men Photo: AFP/Getty Images Last month, the Government Equalities Office, run by Labour"s emissary personalityRead Full Story
The Daily Telegraph obtained documents showing that Harmen called on ministers to make sexually explicit photographs or films of children legal unless there was evidence that the subject had been harmed. At the time she made the official submission, she was a senior figure in a civil liberties organisation that wanted the age of consent to be lowered to 14 and incest decriminalised. It also defended self-confessed paedophiles in the press and allowed them to attend its meetings. Harman was a...Read Full Story
MediaCity can help create jobs across Greater Manchester by being the region’s ‘window on the world’, according to Labour’s deputy leader Harriet Harman.
Ms Harman – Labour’s shadow culture, media and sport secretary – said the Salford Quays development was hugely significant for the future of business and jobs in the region.
How should we classify the over-60s? "Antique"? "Primeval"? Don't worry, though – Thompson says he's in the process of "bringing great female talent back to the BBC". Sample evidence: "I am pleased to see that BBC One Controller Danny Cohen ...
Labour's deputy leader tells Leveson inquiry she wants editors to put forward practical proposals for regulating the pressNewspaper proprietors need urgently to agree a common new system of redress and regulation to put to the Leveson inquiry, according to Harriet Harman, the shadow culture and media secretary.She said the new system should be independent, apply to all newspapers and be citizen-centric.Before her first major speech on the...
Harman later admitted when questioned by Sky News that the incident was a result of her using "Harriet" and "Harman" as her username and password. After Brown's resignation, she quickly announced that she would remain Deputy Leader rather than standing for ...
Labour deputy defends new stance on freezing public sector pay but rejects claim all cuts have been accepted as 'necessary evil'Labour's deputy leader has rejected criticism of the party's position on coalition spending cuts, insisting that suggestions it has accepted them as a necessary evil "couldn't be further from the truth".Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Harriet Harman said Labour continued to believe that the coalition's...
Impressive new schools and childrenâs centres - North West and Yorkshire. Campaigning in the North West on Monday. In Manchester - unemployment still falling.
Miss Harman also said that the Labour party was "aligned" with the "progressive" views of the Democrats, but stressed the Government's position was not to "get involved" in US politics. The gaffe follows a dressing down delivered to Prime Minister ...