Harriet Harman said the next Labor leader should be a woman, adding that it was “outright embarrassing” that the party had never been led by a woman.
The Labor veteran MP also spoke of the grief of losing her husband Jack Dromy “surprisingly” when he died in January.
Harman, an MP from Cumberwell and Peckham, who plans to step down after the next general election, told GB News: that the Conservatives had two, and we didn’t even have a woman leader in 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. Women in the Conservative Party tend to work with men without challenging them the way we do.
Asked how she was doing after her husband’s death, Harman said: “I’m not entirely sure what the answer is to this question, because it’s only been six months since he died and he died all of a sudden.
“I feel that widowhood is something that happens to most women who are married or have a partner. But for me, there is a real mystery about “how to move forward in your life?”
A father of three and a Labor MP, Dromy died suddenly of heart failure in his apartment in the Birmingham Erdington constituency six months ago. The couple married in 1982.
Harman said, “I have children, I have grandchildren, I have my constituents, so in a sense I have no choice but to do what they describe as a crack.” I seem to be cracking … I know this is what Jack would like me to do.
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