Harriet Harman


Harriet Ruth Harman, QC is a British lawyer and Labour Party politician who has been a Member of Parliament since 1982, first for Peckham, and then for its successor constituency of Camberwell and Peckham since 1997. She has served in various Cabinet and Shadow Cabinet positions and, in her role as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, she was twice the Acting Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition from May to September 2010 and from May to September 2015.

Harman was born Harriet Ruth Harman at 108 Harley Street in London, to Anna Harman , a solicitor, married to a Harley Street physician John Bishop Harman. Her parents each had nonconformist backgrounds her grandfather, ophthalmic surgeon Nathaniel Bishop Harman, was a prominent Unitarian and the Spicer family were well known congregationalists. Her aunt was Elizabeth Pakenham, Countess of Longford, and her cousins include writers Lady Antonia Fraser, Rachel Billington, and Thomas Pakenham. Harman is a greatgreat niece of Joseph Chamberlain and is also related to Richard Chamberlain.

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