Harriet Harman said the next Labor leader should be a woman, adding that it was “shameful” that the party had never had a woman at the helm.
The veteran Labor MP also spoke of the pain of losing her husband, Jack Dromey, “out of nowhere” when she died in January.
Harman, a Camberwell and Peckham MP who plans to resign after the next general election, told GB News: time, because it’s downright embarrassing that the Conservatives have had two, and we haven’t even had a woman leader in the opposition, let alone a woman prime minister.
“I think it’s partly because women in the Labor Party are more subversive than women in the Conservative Party. Conservative women tend to work with men without challenging them the way we do. “
When asked about how she had coped after her husband’s death, Harman said, “I’m not entirely sure what the answer to that question is, because it’s only been six months since she died, and she died. absolutely suddenly, all of a sudden.
“I think widowhood is something that happens to most women who are married or have a partner. But there’s a real mystery to me about … how is it going in your life?
The father of three and Labor MP Dromey died suddenly of heart failure on his flat in his Birmingham Erdington constituency six months ago. The couple married in 1982.
Harman said, “I have children, I have grandchildren, I have my constituents, so somehow I have no choice but to do what they describe as ‘crack’.” I’m like, doing … I know that’s what Jack would want me to do.