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Harriet Ruth Harman QC (born 30 July 1950) is a British solicitor and Labour Party politician who has served as the 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 has served as the Acting Leader of the Labour Party twice and Leader of the Opposition: from May to September 2010 and from May to September 2015; and remains the only politician to have held this position on two separate occasions.

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For many young people, social mobility now means a bus down to the job centre.

Bus, Centre, Down, Jobs, Mean, People

I am a very big admirer of Hillary 's and I am an admirer of Obama as well.

Admirer, Bigs, Hillary, Obama, Wells

I am in the Labour Party because I am a feminist. I am in the Labour Party because I believe in equality.

Believe, Feminist, Labour, Party

I don't agree with all-male leaderships. Men cannot be left to run things on their own. I think it's a thoroughly bad thing to have men-only leadership.

Bad, Left, Men, Run, Running, Thinking

I think a balanced team of men and women makes better decisions. That's one of the reasons why I was prepared to run for deputy leader.

Running, Team, Men, Reasons, Run

There are many women with children under five who want to work and who lack affordable, high-quality child care.

Care, Child, Children, Lack, Quality

I'm sure nobody wants to know this, but my husband does all the cleaning - rather too much cleaning. It is too clean, the house!

Clean, Cleaning, Doe, House, Husband, Nobody

The Chancellor has delivered his first budget but it's the same old Tories ; hitting hardest at those who can least afford it and breaking their promises. This is true to form for the Tories, but it includes things that the Liberal Democrats have always fought against. Surely they cannot vote for this.

Firsts, Hitting, Promise, Same, Tories, True

In a country where women regard themselves as equal, they are not prepared to see men running the show themselves.

Country, Men, Prepared, Running

This is a very crucial period and we have got five fantastic candidates. All of them would make excellent leaders of the Party.

Excellent, Fantastic, Leader, Leaders, Party, Period

Leading the party is a privilege not a right.

Leading, Party, Privilege, Right

Jeremy [Corbyn] earned the right to take up the leadership of the party with a big majority. But he has failed and he has no right or mandate to stay in office despite his failure and take the party down with him.

Down, Majority, Mandate, Office, Party, Right

Now, many of us in the Labour Party are conservationists - and we all love the red squirrel. But there is one ginger rodent which we never want to see again - Danny Alexander.

Danny, Ginger, Party, Rodents, Squirrels

Not all civil servants admire strong political leadership. But if you want to change things for the better you need strong political leadership.

Admire, Change, Political, Servants, Strong, Things

The Labour Party is the sister Party for the Democrats and their progressive views are the ones that we are most aligned with.

Democrats, Labour, Ones, Party, Progressive, Views

I'm afraid you gave up the right to pontificate on social mobility when you abolished educational maintenance allowance [EMA], trebled tuition fees and betrayed a generation of young people.

Educational, Ema, Generations, Maintenance, People, Young

While the happy couple are enjoying the thrill of the rose garden, the in-laws are saying that they are just not right for each other. We keep telling them that they cannot pay couples to stay together, and it is clear that it will take more than a three-quid-a-week tax break to keep this marriage together.

Couple, Couples, Garden, Law, Telling