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

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 by the scale of the challenge that lies ahead, but fortified by the energy and determination of our new lea...

In a speech to delegates at the Scottish Labour conference Harriet Harman said that they should use the Euro elections as a "dress rehearsal" for the next UK election. Oh dear, what Harriet has just achieved is to make the Euro elections a vote of confidence on not only Gordon Brown, but also upon herself. If Labour do poorly (and it is highly likely that they will) both she and Gordon will carry ...

Harriet Harman, the deputy chair of the Labour party, warned there was a very real risk that the far-right British National party could make electoral gains at the European elections in June by exploiting the recession. Harman, also the women and equalities minister, told the Progressive London conference in central London that Labour was gearing up for an unprecedented campaign to stop Nick Griff...

While Harriet was talking on her mobile phone, she crashed into another car and drove off after shouting - "I’m Harriet Harman, you know where you can get hold of me." Clearly not at the scene of an accident you're responsible for Ms Harman.

I've just returned from a meeting of the Oxford University Labour Club, where Harriet Harman was speaking to students. The South London MP was elected deputy leader of her party last year in front of a surprised and dismayed conference hall, but whatever people think about Harman, she's a decent public speaker. She had a good rapport with the 40-strong audience, and although I couldn't find much t...

As the Prime Minister is visiting Iraq today, it falls to Deputy Labour Leader Harriet Harman to face the last Prime Minister's Questions of 2008... or rather the last 'Questions'. She'll be battling it out with PMQs supremos William Hague for the Tories and Vince Cable for the Lib Dems. Can Harriet hold her own, returning to the form of her first (surprisingly good) perfo...

Alan Duncan is the new Shadow Leader of the House, up against Harriet Harman. Those who complain that the Tories don't attack enough (they don't) will enjoy the exchange (Hansard) he had with her this morning. There has been a sudden delay in the Political Parties and Elections Bill. Will the right hon. and learned Lady tell the House why that has happened? Given her close personal links with the ...

I never saw Question Time last week but I was made aware of an apparent killer quote that Harriet Harman threw in Alan Duncan's direction regarding the regulation of banks. Harriet intimated that the Tories were completely against regulation despite their current protestations that regulation has some merit. The quote from Harriet Harman is: "I’ve got a nice little quote here, “We...

The Lib Dems did something today that the party hasn’t explicitly done in a long time: it launched its campaign for the European elections focusing on the positive impact of British membership of the European Union. Non-Lib Dems might casually read that sentence and shrug bemusedly – the Lib Dems are a pro-European party, they’ll