What has Harriet Harman QC been up to today?
Harriet Harman QC is MP for Camberwell and Peckham and a member of the Labour party.
Harriet Harman QC has 189318 followers on Twitter.
📢We believe the Government has failed to make the case for repealing and replacing the Human Rights Act with a Bill of Rights in the form proposed. We've written to @DominicRaab with our concerns.
Read the full letter: https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/22880/documents/167940/default/
London bus cuts hit poorest communities hardest & take £ out of drivers’ pay. @TfL put these awful cuts where they will do least damage. Sign petition 👇
https://www.change.org/p/save-southwark-buses-76a6cd96-80f9-41d6-be68-dd7ccbc18e67
A Joint letter from @CommonsPACAC @CommonsJustice @HumanRightsCtte @HLConstitution has been sent to Lord Chancellor @DominicRaab @MoJGovUK calling for pre-legislative scrutiny of a 'Bill of Rights'.
Read the letter here https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/22473/documents/165604/default/
Building new homes is impt but must be done w fairness to tenants & no unreasonable delays. @lb_southwark need to get on with it & ensure reasonable accom is there for all those who have to move. Thanks to Mike Edge, Sceaux Gardens TRA Chair for speaking up for tenants 👏 👏 👏
Six years ago our colleague and friend, Jo Cox, was murdered.
In Jo’s memory we continue to look ahead with a belief that the world she believed in so passionately remains within our grasp.
“We are far more united and have far more in common than that which divides us.”
Cuts to bus routes hit hardest those who can least afford it. My, @helenhayes_ and @coyleneil’s letter to Transport Sec @grantshapps protesting Govt failure to fund @TfL. This is not levelling up. 👇
25% of proposed bus cuts are in @lb_southwark. Tube-less Camb & P’ham needs more transport links. Not less! @MayorofLondon @SouthwarkLabour @transportgovuk @grantshapps https://twitter.com/diamondgeezer/status/1531905424009711616
📣Tomorrow at 3pm we will be hearing from Charlotte Kilroy QC, Colin Yeo, and Dr Hazel Cameron as we examine the human rights implications of the UK’s asylum partnership agreement with Rwanda.
📰Read more here: https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/93/human-rights-joint-committee/news/171250/committee-examines-human-rights-implications-of-rwanda-asylum-agreement/
Have got onto @lb_southwark about this
At her wits’ end: Leaks leave #Camberwell woman in damp mouldy flats for months
https://www.southwarknews.co.uk/news/at-her-wits-end-leaks-leave-camberwell-woman-in-damp-mouldy-flats-for-months/
Very tough choices for @MayorofLondon in face of Gov's @TfL funding failure. But cuts must not hit those who can least afford it hardest. My letter to Mayor 👇
It’s official. Women, black people, elderly & people on low income hit hardest by proposed bus cuts. @TfL publish impact assessments. These plans must be withdrawn.
https://haveyoursay.tfl.gov.uk/busreview/widgets/47800/documents
@transportgovuk @grantshapps @MayorofLondon @lb_southwark https://twitter.com/HarrietHarman/status/1531966252025012224
I am aware of concerns around events at Burgess Park this Thursday and I am liaising closely with @MPSSouthwark
TfL bus consultation, a thread 🧵
The Tories are playing politics with London’s transport, refusing to acknowledge the impact of the pandemic on TfL finances, making cuts to bus services a condition of emergency funding & refusing to negotiate a sustainable long term settlement
Two weeks ago, the Prime Minister and I opened the Elizabeth line with Her Majesty the Queen. Two weeks later, and the Government is forcing cuts to London’s iconic bus network.
My letter to the PM:
Sign petition to @grantshapps @transportgovuk. Vital bus routes must stay open @RyeHillTRA
Save Southwark Buses https://chng.it/mxxNfyhp via @UKChange
For too long, the Tories have played politics with Londoners’ lives. Cuts to TfL budgets have put London’s transport at risk. Sign here to save Southwark’s buses.
It’s official. Women, black people, elderly & people on low income hit hardest by proposed bus cuts. @TfL publish impact assessments. These plans must be withdrawn.
https://haveyoursay.tfl.gov.uk/busreview/widgets/47800/documents
@transportgovuk @grantshapps @MayorofLondon @lb_southwark
Tube-less Camberwell and Peckham needs more buses not fewer! What an irony days after Elizabeth Line opened! We must have detailed “impact assessment” on race/class/gender. Elderly at risk on crowded buses, women/girls not safe waiting/walking etc https://twitter.com/RyeHillTRA/status/1531964636140036098
Yes! Bus cuts are direct result of refusal of @grantshapps @transportgovuk @BorisJohnson to fund @TfL adequately!
@HarrietHarman @lb_southwark @MayorofLondon @SouthwarkLabour @transportgovuk @grantshapps And a lot of those that remain are reducing frequency. Is this fallout from the deal Johnson’s govt imposed on TfL?
This is grim reality of Tory govt failure to properly fund @TfL following 90% loss of income during pandemic. So this is what “levelling up” looks like! @transportgovuk @grantshapps @lb_southwark
Alarmed to hear @TfL will launch a 6week consultation today to withdraw 16 bus routes in inner London: 4, 11, 12, 14, 16, 24, 31, 45, 72, 74, 78, 242, 349, 521, C3, D7
They are lifeline links for local residents -this is the sharp end of @grantshapps imposing £300m of cuts on TfL
Camberwell is vital “health hub”. Cutting buses used by 1000s of staff and patients and visitors is wrong. @KingsCollegeNHS @MaudsleyNHS
@HarrietHarman This would be essential for transporting staff to Kings and the Maudsley
25% of proposed bus cuts are in @lb_southwark. Tube-less Camb & P’ham needs more transport links. Not less! @MayorofLondon @SouthwarkLabour @transportgovuk @grantshapps
Sixteen London bus routes are to be withdrawn by the end of next year: 4, 11, 12, 14, 16, 24, 31, 45, 72, 74, 78, 242, 349, 521, C3, D7
Route 12 essential. Needed for people to go to work, kids to go to school etc, Low car ownership in this area. People/climate/air quality can’t afford more cars
"Route 12 would no longer run"
I feel a campaign coming on. https://twitter.com/TfL/status/1531942714115244033
Tube-less Camberwell and Peckham needs more buses not fewer! What an irony days after Elizabeth Line opened! We must have detailed “impact assessment” on race/class/gender. Elderly at risk on crowded buses, women/girls not safe waiting/walking etc
Really pleased that our ever responsive MP, @HarrietHarman , is on the case with re the proposal to remove bus routes from Southwark, particularly 12 & 78.
🤞🏾 powers that be will listen. https://twitter.com/RyeHillTRA/status/1531936237669474305
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.@DSimmonds_RNP says that an apology on behalf of the state for what happened would be appreciated, as a recognition of the impact that it has had. @HumanRightsCtte
Should an adopted person's birth certificate & adoption certificate make clear the identity of the child before and after adoption? @HumanRightsCtte
.@joannaccherry gives example of Ireland and Australia, whose Govs gave formal apologies for historic adoption practices. What is stopping UK Gov from doing that? @HumanRightsCtte
From evidence, some really awful treatment of unmarried mothers came from healthcare workers. What do you think of an apology for what has happened by the Government?
To what extent does Gov and institutions like Catholic Church e.g through work of social workers, bear responsibility for separating mothers from their children? @HumanRightsCtte
"I recognise the hurt & pain that occurred, & I am deeply sorry that so many went through this ordeal. I acknowledge the profound & lasting impact that this had, & I am deeply troubled that practices were so pervasive & persisted for so long" @nadhimzahawi tells @HumanRightsCtte
"I am horrified to hear of the accounts of mothers not being provided with pain relief during labour; being verbally abused during childbirth; and of their sometimes incredibly cruel treatment" @nadhimzahawi tells @HumanRightsCtte
.@HumanRightsCtte is currently hearing evidence from @nadhimzahawi about historic forced adoption. Watch here:
https://www.parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/44506ef1-20bd-4a99-9cce-ee3afde627a1
This afternoon @nadhimzahawi Sec of state responsible for adoption giving evidence to @HumanRightsCtte re thousands of unmarried mothers and their babies separated by adoption in ‘50s, 60’s & 70’s. Lifelong heartache for so many.
📣Tomorrow at 3pm we’ll be questioning the Secretary of State for Education & the Department for Education’s Deputy Director of Adoption on our Inquiry into the adoption of children of unmarried mothers between 1949-1976.
📰Read about our Inquiry here: https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/93/human-rights-joint-committee/news/171037/nadhim-zahawi-questioned-over-calls-for-government-apology-for-historic-forced-adoption-cases/
Congratulations! Wonderful news @tanya_plibersek
What a night for our nation. https://twitter.com/AlboMP/status/1528011807008649217
Our chair @HarrietHarman has written to the Secretary of State for International Trade @annietrev regarding the lack of reference to human rights in the first post-Brexit trade agreements
Read the full letter: https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/22315/documents/164997/default/
And bonuses increase pay gap between men and women!
The issue isn’t that bonus growth rates are much higher in some sectors - it’s that bonuses are just very concentrated ie finance/business sectors make up around 20% of jobs but they take home almost 60% of bonuses
Locking up pregnant women damages mothers and children – yet the UK does it | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/16/locking-up-pregnant-women-mothers-children-uk-trauma
The attacks on mourners at the funeral of the journalist, Shireen Abu Aqla, have shocked the world.
The Labour Party unequivocally condemns the violence by Israeli forces.
Out thoughts are with Shireen’s family and all those who mourn her death.
Read the original letter sent by our Chair @HarrietHarman here: https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/9260/documents/160248/default/
Our Chair @HarrietHarman is now welcoming our second panel of witnesses: Professor Aileen McHarg @AileenMcHarg, Charles Whitmore @CDWhitmore, @CAJNi Director Brian Gormally.
Watch our session live: https://parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/f8f50233-aa04-4821-8290-e82b9e11876a
🚨We begin with our Chair, @HarrietHarman, welcoming our first panel of witnesses: Baroness Falkner @EHRCChair, Alyson Kilpatrick, Chief Commissioner of @NIHRC, and Barbara Bolton, Head of Legal and Policy at the SHRC @Babsbol.
📺Watch our session live: https://parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/f8f50233-aa04-4821-8290-e82b9e11876a
Alyson Kilpatrick from @NIHRC says "the HRA has been the vital tool in ensuring Human Rights compliance across the UK, particularly so in Northern Ireland. The HRA has enabled individuals to hold the state to account, on issues such as the right to life" @HumanRightsCtte
Barbara Bolton from @ScotHumanRights says that as result of HRA, Human Rights practice has been embedded and prioritised throughout all public service providers, government, and local authorities. @HumanRightsCtte
What impact has the Human Rights Act had on how human rights are enforced in the four nations?
Baroness Kishwer Falkner of @EHRC says "The HRA continues to play a vital role in strengthening protection of Human Right in the UK" @HumanRightsCtte
Today at 3pm we will be questioning @EHRC, @NIHRC, @ScotHumanRights, @AileenMcHarg, @CDWhitmore, & @CAJNi on the impact of the Government’s proposals to reform the #HumanRightsAct in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
Read more about the Inquiry here: https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/93/human-rights-joint-committee/news/170694/impact-of-human-rights-act-reforms-on-northern-ireland-scotland-and-wales-examined/
Our Chair @HarrietHarman has written to @ukhomeoffice regarding the Government’s Asylum Partnership Arrangement with Rwanda.
Read the full letter here: https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/22134/documents/164333/default/
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I’m delighted to announce that @PippaCrerar is to join the Guardian as political editor. Pippa has a remarkable track record of exclusives and has set the political agenda time and again. She joins us later this year
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@janemerrick23 @ChaplainChloe 🔴 Mother of the House @HarrietHarman told @theipaper that the new generation of women parliamentarians has “zero tolerance” of misconduct, adding there would now be “no hiding place” for misogynists in Westminster.
https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/female-mps-determined-there-will-be-no-hiding-place-for-misogynists-and-sexual-misconduct-in-parliament-1601568?ito=social_itw_theipaper&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1651219924
Agree. And Pauline Latham too! 👏👏👏
Fair play to the Tory women standing up to be counted on this. It might not seem like it to twitter readers but it takes some considerable bravery https://twitter.com/LOS_Fisher/status/1519676762686472192
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they are indeed “demeaning”. But the good news is that for every one woman who is deterred from Commons there are 10 others straining to come in in order to kick mysogenist backsides!!!!
He said such remarks are "demeaning" and will deter women who might be considering standing for election