I was thoroughly amused whilst watching Prime Minister’s Questions today to see Harriet Harman make a dig at Alex Salmond for being both an MP and an MSP.Hasn’t Harriet Harman met Margaret Curran MSP who is standing for Labour in the Glasgow East by-election?There is a long way to go before Harman becomes Prime Minister I think….

Harriet Harman pitches for 'stand-in' Prime Minister job Harriet Harman is campaigning to promote herself as a stand-in Prime Minister should Mr Brown be forced out. It emerged last night that Labour MPs have been sounded out about her suitability if the PM leaves No10 by the end of the year. With the Prime Minister's position looking precarious,

Asked if the Prime Minister backed Harriet Harman in her crusade to make paying for sex illegal, the PMS replied that Harriet Harman was a Government Minister and as such had the Prime Minister s backing. Asked to clarify if the Prime Minister was backing Harriet Harman in her job as Minister responsible for such matters or the view that prostitution should be legalised, the PMS replied that the P...

With the Prime Minister off gigging at the US Congress, it was left to Harriet Harman to stand in at Prime Minister’s Questions, and face interrogation from Vince Cable for the Lib Dems and William Hague for the Tories. This was undoubtedly a pretty weak performance by Ms Harman (though, somewhat bizarrely, she has been

Who will become Prime Minister if Gordon Brown stands down? I think it will be Harriet Harman. I am not asking who will win a Labour leadership contest, for that is a different question. I am asking what would happen...

Hard to believe, but Harriet Harman has come up with a worthwhile soundbite. Grilled on GMTV this morning about Gordon Brown's lingering political death, she managed to avoid sounding as though she were reading a script prepared by those brainboxes in the Downing Street bunker. "I don't think the British people have seen the best of him yet as Prime Minister," said Harman (some would argue that t...

Harriet Harman is centre stage today. With Gordon Brown in Washington, she deputised at Prime Minister's Questions, and is also hosting a Downing Street event on women in the recession. In her previous appearances at PMQs, Harman has done well.

Harriet Harman I think I may be able to help Harriet Harman. She has said that she is determined that Sir Fred Goodwin is not to keep his pension. “Who will rid this turbulent banker of his pension?” Gordon Brown. The Prime Minister has spoken. Make it so, Number One. But how is it to be done legally? Ms Harman declined to say how the government would achieve this but made it clear it would no...

Harriet Harman’s response to David Cameron’s statement on the G8 and G20 was noticeable for her attacking the Prime Minister for talking about bringing British troops home from Afghanistan within five years. Her criticism was that talking about withdrawal undermined the troops in the field, she sounded more like John McCain than I ever expected Harriet Harman to. She chose to reinforce...

Harriet Harman sounded laboured and disingenuous when she stood in for Gordon Brown today at Prime Minister's questions. The Government's position is now an awkward one: it has saved the banks, but what is it going to do for everyone else? Harman had no satisfactory answers. Her fighting spirit is not in doubt, and the one moment when she sounded as if she might get on ...