Yesterday Harriet Harman claimed that Labour’s pink ‘Woman to Woman’ van is not patronising after a public backlash saw the feminine choice of colour ridiculed online.
Now the deputy leader faces further backlash, after Karen Danczuk accused Harman of patronising her when they first met. The Labour councillor and wife of Simon Danczuk claims that Harman told her she was too pretty to be in politics and instead suggested she join the pop band Girls Aloud.
When I first met Harriet Harman she said I was far too pretty to be interested in politics & should be in Girls Aloud. KD
— Cllr Karen Danczuk (@KarenDanczuk) February 11, 2015
Harman has now come out to deny that she ever said such a thing.
Harriet Harman on @KarenDanczuk‘s Girls Aloud allegation: “I deny I ever said that and it’s inconceivable I would have ever said that.”
— Matthew Holehouse (@mattholehouse) February 12, 2015
Danczuk is sticking by her account of the conversation. With the Labour councillor stepping down from the party, this spat has little hope of ending amicably.
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