Harriet Harman

**Harriet Ruth Harman, Baroness Harman**  (born 30 July 1950) is a British politician who was the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 2007 to 2015. She was born and raised in West London. She is the Member of Parliament for the Camberwell and Peckham constituency in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. She was first elected for Peckham in a by-election in 1982.

## Career

She has held cabinet posts in the Labour governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. Following Brown's resignation as Labour leader on 11 May 2010, Harman was the acting leader of the Labour Party until Ed Miliband was elected on September 25, 2010. Until 2015 she was the Deputy Leader and ex-officio member of the Shadow Cabinet. She was also Shadow Deputy Prime Minister and Shadow Secretary of State for International Development.

On February 24 2014, Harman's was on _Newsnight_ to say that she did not support the Paedophile Information Exchange.
Harman would not say sorry.

## Personal life

Harman is a feminist. She married Jack Dromey in 1982. The couple have two sons and a daughter. Dromey died in 2022.

## Infobox (officeholder)

- **embed**: yes
- **office**: Member of the House of Lords
- **status**: Lords Temporal, Lord Temporal
- **term start**: 19 August 2024
Life peerage
- **parliament2**: United Kingdom
- **constituency mp2**: Camberwell and Peckham (UK Parliament constituency), Camberwell and Peckham

- **term start2**: 28 October 1982
- **term end2**: 30 May 2024
- **predecessor2**: Harry Lamborn
- **successor2**: Miatta Fahnbulleh (politician), Miatta Fahnbulleh


## Infobox (officeholder)

- **honorific-prefix**: The Right Honourable
- **name**: The Baroness Harman
- **image**: Official portrait of Rt Hon Harriet Harman QC MP crop 2.jpg
- **caption**: Official portrait, 2020
- **office**: Leader of the Opposition (United Kingdom), Leader of the Opposition
- **term start**: 8 May 2015
- **term end**: 12 September 2015
- **monarch**: Elizabeth II
- **primeminister**: David Cameron
- **predecessor**: Ed Miliband
- **successor**: Jeremy Corbyn
- **term start1**: 11 May 2010
- **term end1**: 25 September 2010
- **monarch1**: Elizabeth II
- **primeminister1**: David Cameron
- **predecessor1**: David Cameron
- **successor1**: Ed Miliband
- **office2**: Deputy Leader of the Labour Party
- **term start2**: 24 June 2007
- **term end2**: 12 September 2015
- **leader2**: Gordon Brown
Ed Miliband
- **predecessor2**: John Prescott
- **successor2**: Tom Watson, Baron Watson of Wyre Forest, Tom Watson
- **office3**: Leader of the House of Commons
Lord Privy Seal, Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal
- **term start3**: 28 June 2007
- **term end3**: 11 May 2010
- **primeminister3**: Gordon Brown
- **predecessor3**: Jack Straw
- **successor3**: George Young, Baron Young of Cookham, George Young
- **office4**: Department of Social Security (United Kingdom), Secretary of State for Social Security
- **term start4**: 3 May 1997
- **term end4**: 27 July 1998
- **primeminister4**: Tony Blair
- **predecessor4**: Peter Lilley
- **successor4**: Alistair Darling
- **birth name**: Harriet Ruth Harman
- **birth place**: Marylebone, London, England
- **party**: Labour Party (UK), Labour
- **children**: 3
- **residence**: Herne Hill, London
Suffolk
- **alma mater**: University of York (Bachelor of Arts, BA)