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Harriet Harman entered the House of Commons in 1982 and served two transient stints as Labour chief
Veteran Labour MP Harriet Harman has launched she’s going to stand down at the next general election.
She revealed her resolution in an email to her local occasion in Camberwell and Peckham on Tuesday morning after practically 40 years as their MP.
She promised to “work energetically” until the next polling day.
However Ms Harman mentioned she would then traipse away the Commons “now assured that Labour is gaining strength below the leadership of Keir Starmer”.
Labour MP Karen Buck known as her a “guiding gentle and inspiration for women in politics”, whereas former MP and now West Yorkshire Mayor, Tracey Brabin, known as her “the brand new glass ceiling smasher”.
The 71-year-faded became an MP in 1982 and has held a raft of posts in the occasion – at the side of two transient stints as chief after Gordon Brown and Ed Miliband stepped down.
She served as deputy chief for every men, nonetheless may well well well be greater known for her feminist campaigning in Parliament and as Mother of the House – the girl with the longest real carrier in the Commons.
In her email, Ms Harman mentioned when she entered Parliament, she become as soon as regarded as one of criminal 11 female Labour MPs in a Commons that become as soon as 97% male.
“Now there are 104 Labour girls and all over all parties girls MPs are a ‘important mass’,” she added.
“However there remains draw more to be finished till girls essentially share political power with men on equal terms and until girls in this country are equal.
“I could traipse away the House of Commons with my feminism, my belief in Labour and my enthusiasm for politics undimmed.”
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Ms Harman pictured alongside her husband, fellow Labour MP Jack Dromey, in 1982 after successful her Peckham seat in a by-election
Ms Harman took to Twitter to share some facts and figures about her time in Parliament.
As neatly as stopping 10 general elections, she has served below seven top ministers and eight Labour leaders.
She has spoken in the Commons 9,850 times since November 1982.
And she became a mom of three and grandmother to 5.
‘Hero’
MPs have been paying tribute to Ms Harman, with shadow health secretary Wes Streeting calling her a “creep-blazer, commerce-maker and champion”.
His occasion colleague and shadow minister Jess Philips mentioned: “All my life Harriet has been in Parliament and as a girl that life would have been very numerous if she hadn’t.
“Harriet Harman is my hero. I owe her a debt so colossal it may well well most likely’t be repaid.”
And Labour’s Liz Kendall added: “Harriet Harman has inspired so many folks in politics, and has blazed a creep for women and equality.
“Parliament may well well well not be the identical without her nonetheless we can withhold stopping the factual combat!”
