Tag: Harriet Harman

• Monday, March 10th 2025 - 08:32 UTC

  Women’s rights to be championed by appointment of new UK Special Envoy

  

  The UK Foreign Secretary has appointed Harriet Harman as the new UK Special Envoy for Women and Girls. She will begin her appointment on International Women’s Day, Saturday 8 March 2025.

• Monday, November 4th 2019 - 09:20 UTC

  Eight hopefuls for Speaker of Commons Bercow chair

  

  British MPs will this Monday select the new speaker of the House of Commons, once an unremarkable event but one now charged with significance following the previous occupant's role in Brexit.

• Thursday, September 10th 2015 - 08:25 UTC

  Queen Elizabeth thanks well-wishers for their 'touching messages of kindness'

  

  Queen Elizabeth has thanked well-wishers in the UK and overseas for their “touching messages of kindness” as she becomes Britain's longest-reigning monarch. Speaking in the Scottish Borders, the 89-year-old monarch said the title was “not one to which I have ever aspired”.

• Tuesday, May 19th 2015 - 02:23 UTC

  Independent John Bercow re-elected unopposed as Speaker of the Commons

  

  John Bercow has been re-elected unopposed as Speaker of Britain's House of Commons as MPs returned to Parliament for the first time after the election. The choice of the next Speaker was the first act of the new Parliament before newly elected MPs are sworn in.