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Harriet Harman MP, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, speaking to Labour Party Conference today, said:

This has been a historic conference.

It’s been a rollercoaster of emotions.

We’re disappointed to be in opposition, but proud of what we achieved in government.

We’re sobered ...

Labour’s shadow DFID and Foreign Office teams today showed their solidarity with Burmese political prisoners ahead of the Burmese elections scheduled for the 7 November 2010

Shadow Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper said:

 “The people of Burma continue to have their basic human rights denied by a brutal dictatorship. These ...

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On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, Labour’s Shadow Secretary of State for International Development, Rt Hon Harriet Harman MP gave a keynote speech outlining Labour’s priorities on international development and how women and girls can work together around the world ...

Harriet Harman MP, Labour’s Shadow Secretary of State for International Development, speaking on the first anniversary of the devastating Haiti earthquake said:

“Today we remember the hundreds of thousands of people who died in the Haiti earthquake, the thousands more who died from the subsequent cholera epidemic ...

Growing the Aid Budget at a time of Deficit Reduction: Moral Imperative and Political Challenge 
 It is a pleasure to be here tonight at the London School of Economics where great work on international development is being done and where so many students from all over the world come to ...

Harriet Harman MP, Labour’s Shadow Secretary of State for International Development and Shadow Deputy Prime Minister said on the launch of the "Keep the .7/2013 Promise" campaign:

"The “Keep the .7/2013 Promise” campaign sends a clear message about the importance of meeting the UK’s commitment to ...

On Monday 7 March, ahead of the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day, the Labour Party launched the first of its International Development policy review groups entitled “Supporting the sustainable empowerment of women and girls in the developing world”.

The group will be chaired by Cherie Blair. It will ...

Harriet Harman MP, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, has called on party members to be part of Team Labour 2011.

She is urging members across the country to become candidates in the council elections in May to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to vote Labour.

Harriet Harman said ...

Harriet Harman MP, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, said in response to Boris Johnson's disgraceful claim that Labour will feel "satisfied by the disorder" that took place last Saturday in Central London:

"This is typical of Boris Johnson-thoughtless, shallow and plain wrong.

"He should withdraw this disgraceful allegation ...

Today Labour launches its International Development policy review. The review is made up of one working group which will oversee the process and advise the Shadow International Development team and six taskforces working on specific development issues. 

Harriet Harman MP, Labour’s Shadow International Development Secretary, said: 

“The Labour Party ...

Harriet Harman MP, Labour's Shadow International Development Secretary, in response to Liam Fox's letter to David Cameron on overseas aid, said:

"The commitment to increase overseas aid spending to 0.7% of GNI by 2013 was a manifesto commitment by the Tories and the Lib Dems and was ...

Today, ahead of the G8 summit to be held in France from the 26th-27th May, Harriet Harman has written to David Cameron, the text of the letter is below:

Dear David,

I am writing to you ahead of the meeting of the G8 in France this week from the 26-27 ...

Government squandering Olympic legacy one year on

A year on from the Opening Ceremony of London 2012, Labour says a golden opportunity for school sport has been wasted.

The Tory-led Government has:

• No strategy for sport – there have been initiatives and announcements but no joined up thinking;

• Scrapped Labour’s ...

Harriet Harman MP, Labour’s Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, has today written to the director of the Tour de France, Christian Proudhomme, to support calls for a women’s version of the event to be held.

Ms Harman also called for a women’s race ...

Harriet Harman MP, Labour’s Shadow Culture, Media and Sport Secretary, speaking as the British Open at Muirfield gets underway, said:
 
“After the recent successes of female sport it’s an embarrassment that this year’s British Open, a world class sporting event, is being held at a club which ...

Harriet Harman MP, Labour’s Shadow Culture, Media and Sport Secretary, will call for an inquiry into women’s sport, looking at media coverage, sponsorship and prize money.

Speaking at a roundtable on women and sport to be held in Parliament on Tuesday, Harman will call on the House of ...

Harriet Harman MP, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, said today:

"Talk of 'red lines' from Nick Clegg is laughable – everyone knows his promises aren’t worth the paper they’re written on.

"Before the last election he led the Lib Dem campaign against a VAT rise and promised to ...

Harriet Harman will lead an Opposition Day debate on the importance of the arts and creative industries in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 19 June.

It will be the first major debate in the House of Commons on the arts and creative industries in over 5 years.

The debate ...

Harriet Harman MP, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, commenting on David Cameron and Nick Clegg’s ‘re-launches’ today, said:

“While millions are struggling under this Government, David Cameron and Nick Clegg are focussed on themselves and their parties – concerned with remaining in power rather than delivering for the country ...

Harriet Harman MP, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, today visiting Gloucester to support Labour's candidates for the local election campaign, met with staff and parents at the Meadows Nursery to discuss the Government's plans to cut the number of staff per child in nurseries.
 
Harriet Harman MP ...

Harriet Harman MP, Labour’s Deputy Leader and Shadow Culture, Media and Sport Secretary, commenting on Maria Miller’s speech on the arts, said: 

“If Maria Miller is going to try to convert her Chancellor and Treasury colleagues to the economic value of the arts and creative industries to jobs ...

Harriet Harman MP, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, in response to Nick Clegg’s speech today, said:

"Nick Clegg won't pull the wool over anyone's eyes on his tax cut for people earning over £150,000. Everyone knows that, having cut tax credits and increased VAT, they ...

Arts renaissance for Labour 

Labour Party celebrates the arts with inaugural dinner

The Labour Party is delighted to announce its inaugural Arts Dinner on Thursday 21 March. The dinner will include special auction items, speeches from Ed Miliband and Harriet Harman, guests from across the arts and creative industries.

Attendees ...

Harriet Harman MP, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, commenting after Nick Clegg’s appearance at the Liberal Democrat Spring Conference this afternoon, said: 

"Nick Clegg can talk all he likes - it is his actions he will be judged on. No one should forget his record of broken promises and ...

Harriet Harman calls on broadcasters to publish numbers of older women working in the UK TV industry

Harriet Harman MP, Labour’s Deputy Leader and Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, has written to all major broadcasters to ask a number of questions about the number of ...

Harriet Harman's Speech to Labour Arts Policy Event: The future of Britain’s arts and culture policy

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Harriet Harman MP, Labour's Deputy Leader and Shadow Culture, Media and Sport Secretary, in her speech to the Labour Arts Policy Event, said:

Introduction

Thank you all for ...

Harriet Harman MP, Labour's Shadow Culture, Media and Sport Secretary and Deputy Leader, has written to Oliver Letwin in response to his draft Royal Charter on the media, which has been published as the Conservative Party's contribution to cross-party talks on the Leveson Report.

The full text of ...

Harriet Harman MP, Labour’s Deputy Leader, responding to Nick Clegg’s speech today, said:

"Nick Clegg can talk about his differences with the Tories as much as he likes - the issue is what he does. Whatever arguments he makes inside government, the truth is that he has voted for ...

Harriet Harman MP, Labour’s Deputy Leader, responding to Nick Clegg’s interview on The Andrew Marr Show, said:

"Nick Clegg will be judged on what he does, not on what he says. He chose to become part of a Tory-led Government, joining David Cameron in his failed economic plan ...

Harriet Harman MP, Labour’s Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, responding to reports that Westminster Council is set to cut its arts commissioning budget, said:

“This is sad and deeply worrying news from Westminster Council.
 
“The cultural institutions in this authority are world renowned and attract ...

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Harriet Harman MP, Labour’s Shadow Culture, Media and Sport Secretary, said today at the Oxford Media Convention:

This time last year when we met:

• Lord Justice Leveson was conducting his Inquiry.

• Mark Thompson was Director-General of the BBC.

• Jimmy Savile was a national treasure.

• Jeremy Hunt ...

Harriet Harman MP, Labour’s Deputy Leader, commenting on Nick Clegg’s speech today, said:

"Nick Clegg will try every trick in the book to distance himself from the record of his government. But as ever, with the Lib Dems, they say one thing whilst doing another - resulting in a ...

The Labour Party has today published a draft Bill to implement Lord Leveson’s central recommendations of independent self regulation of the press – guaranteed by law. 

The draft Bill, called the ‘Press Freedom and Trust Bill,’ shows it is possible to bring forward proposals which support a strong free press ...

Harriet Harman MP, Labour’s Shadow Culture, Media and Sport Secretary, commenting on the appointment of Tony Hall as the new Director-General of the BBC, said:
 
"Tony Hall is an excellent choice as the new Director-General of the BBC, with experience that includes head of news at the BBC and ...

Harriet Harman QC MP, Labour’s Shadow Culture Secretary, following tonight’s BBC Panorama programme, said: 

“With every day, new information comes to light of the pervasive and appalling nature of Jimmy Savile's sexual assaults. 

“Tonight's Panorama programme means that the BBC will have to answer more questions ...

Harriet Harman MP, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party and Shadow Culture, Media and Sport Secretary, said:

“The news that four phone hacking cases have been lodged at the High Court against Mirror Group Newspapers raises the troubling possibility that hacking went beyond News International.

“It is important that allegations ...

Harriet Harman MP, Labour’s Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, responding to reports in the Independent that David Cameron has failed to disclose all of his emails to Rebekah Brooks and all of his emails to Andy Coulson to the Leveson Inquiry, said:

“The reports that ...

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Harriet Harman MP, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, said today at Labour Party Conference 2012:

Hi Conference.

I'm Hattie, 62, from Camberwell.

And here’s today’s news in briefs.

It’s been a great week for the Labour Party.

And it’s been a ...

Harriet Harman MP, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, in response to Nick Clegg’s speech to the Liberal Democrat Conference, said:

"Nick Clegg's speech was more pointless rhetoric.

"There's no reason why anyone should believe a word the Lib Dems say.

"The truth is that they have ...

Harriet Harman MP, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party and Shadow Culture, Media and Sport Secretary, said:

"This was not just the small print of his manifesto, this was Nick Clegg's key election promise when he asked people to vote for his party. It is not good enough for ...

Harriet Harman MP, Shadow Culture, Media and Sport Secretary, commenting on Ofcom's decision that BSkyB is fit and proper to hold a broadcast licence, said:

“While Ofcom has found Sky is fit and proper to hold a broadcasting licence, its criticisms of James Murdoch are damning. His continued presence ...

Harriet Harman MP, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party and Shadow Culture Media and Sport Secretary, in a speech to the British Recorded Music Industry (BPI) Annual General Meeting, said:

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Thank you for inviting me to be here with you today.

And I want to particularly thank ...

Harriet Harman MP, Labour’s Deputy Leader and Shadow Culture Secretary, speaking ahead of the debate on the referral of Jeremy Hunt to the Independent Advisor on Ministers' Interests in the House of Commons tomorrow, said:
 
"This is an important opportunity for the House of Commons to make clear the ...

Harriet Harman MP, Labour’s Deputy Leader and Shadow Culture Secretary, commenting on reports today that Jeremy Hunt has requested that the Communications Green Paper is not published until after the London Olympics, so that no new controversy erupts beforehand, said: 

"Yet further delay in the Communications Green Paper shows ...

Harriet Harman MP, Labour's Deputy Leader and Shadow Culture Secretary, said:

"Jeremy Hunt has broken the Ministerial Code and misled Parliament.

"It is not acceptable that these rules have been broken and we will call a vote insisting that Jeremy Hunt's breaches of the Code are referred to ...

Harriet Harman MP, Labour's Shadow Culture, Media and Sport Secretary, responding to Jeremy Hunt's evidence to the Leveson enquiry today, said:

"Jeremy Hunt should never have been given the quasi judicial role in the first place as he was biased in favour of the bid. David Cameron knew ...

Harriet Harman MP, Labour’s Shadow Culture, Media and Sport Secretary, responding to Vince Cable’s evidence at the Leveson Inquiry, said:
 
“This was a bid of huge importance for the media landscape, worth £8 billion, and Vince Cable was supposed to be dealing with it with the utmost professionalism ...

Harriet Harman MP, Labour's Shadow Culture, Media and Sport Secretary, responding to the latest evidence released by the Leveson enquiry, said:

"The latest evidence published by the Leveson enquiry confirms what we already knew. Jeremy Hunt did not act in a quasi-judicial way; he misled Parliament and breached the ...

Harriet Harman MP, Labour's Deputy Leader and Shadow Culture Secretary, said:

"David Cameron might think that he can brazenly say no regrets and this will somehow draw a line under it but people will not accept that.

"It was evident that he gave the decision on the Murdoch bid ...