A leaflet from the Kippers comes through the door, containing the following: Labour, especially Harriet Harman, intend to allow employers to discriminate in favour of ethnic minorities and women. UKIP say that employment should be on merit alone. We will...

Commenting on today’s Public Accounts Committee report on increasing employment rates for ethnic minorities, Liberal Democrat Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, Jenny Willott said: "Labour’s welfare policies have been neglecting hard to reach groups for a decade and ethnic minorities are sadly no different. This situation is dramatically worse for ethnic minority women. "The training ...

Labour should consider changing its candidate selection procedures to make it easier for would-be MPs from the ethnic minorities to be chosen for Westminster seats, a senior Cabinet minister said today.

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….

THE Welsh Assembly Government was attacked yesterday for failing to put people from ethnic minorities in leadership positions.

Joe Murphy reports in today's Standard that Yvette Cooper, the chief secretary to the Treasury, is being pressed to stand as a "stop Harriet" candidate for the Labour leadership. This piece is extraordinary for many reasons but not least because the premise of the story assumes that Labour has lost the election, Gordon Brown's premiership is dead in the water, and ambitious Labour types ...

LABOUR deputy leader Harriet Harman was forced to apologise yesterday for branding Liberal Democrat Chief Treasury Secretary Danny Alexander a "ginger rodent".

Harriet Harman sets out plans to allow firms to discriminate in favour of female and ethnic minority candidates.

Go for it, Harriet. If no one but Harriet Harman has the guts to challenge Gordon Brown for the Labour leadership, she deserves our admiration. Courage, even cloth-eared courage, is vital in a leader, and Harman looks as if she has got ten times more of it than all those other fiddling, faddling, lily-livered Cabinet ministers who are spoken of as potential candidates to take on Brown. The story t...

What’s all this fuss about Parmjit Dhanda being reshuffled out of his position as a junior minister? Harriet Harman has put her irritating, arrogant pious hand-wringing hat on again, and has decided to kick up a stink. Source. I really don’t understand this contemporary left wing logic. They say that ethnic minorities simply must be represented