Working Transitions
Imposter Syndrome, Mindset & The Dark Side - why Harriet didn’t apply for the top job
Harriet Harman has today announced that she would “definitely” have beaten Ed Miliband in the 2010 Labour leadership had she chosen to stand.
While acting leader in 2010, Ms Harman said party members told her she was "nailing it" and asked her why she was not up for the job. Harman told BBC Radio 4 “ "I was so relieved not to be cocking the whole thing up that I took it as a great compliment, but I didn't go that next step and think they're asking me why I'm not going for leader”. She went onto explain that she didn’t put herself forward for the post because there was “no sense anywhere, as there often is with women, that I was leadership material.”
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