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Article: By her own dire standards, she had a successful outing ... beach donkey finishes Grand National! Flak-jacketed: Harriet Harman in Peckham this week Standing in for Gordon Brown: Miss Harman yesterday Becapped: Hague in 1997.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- April 3, 2008
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Byline: Quentin Letts
SHE survived. Wasn't minced. She can even claim, without too muchexaggeration, to have taken the day - at least partly. Beach donkey completescourse at Grand National. Rusty Trabant burns down the finishing straight at LeMans, engine smoking in triumph as it takes the chequered flag.
Yes, people of Britain, by her own dire standards Harriet Harman had asuccessful first outing as Gordon Brown's deputy at Prime Minister's Questions.
As a child receives coos of congratulation when it completes its first fewstrokes in a swimming pool, so did Westminster respond yesterday. Well done,Hattie! In, out, legs together! Good girl! It ...