Harriet Harman is everywhere in today’s papers. I mean, just look at the stories in the Times. On their cover, they have news that she’s clashing with her colleagues and civil servants over new rape laws:
“Labour’s deputy leader used her position as Gordon Brown’s stand-in to demand a more radical overhaul of the law, such as targets for prosecutors and police to secure more convictions. She has the backing of Vera Baird, the Solicitor-General, but Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary and Alan Johnson, the Home Secretary, do not want to widen the terms of reference and the review has been postponed…
…According to Whitehall officials, she tore up plans to begin a study of the rape laws after clashing with civil servants. ‘There’s been a bit of a kerfuffle over the substance,’ said one.
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