Harriet Yeo

Harriet Bronwen Yeo[1] is a British trade unionist, a former Treasurer and President of Transport Salaried Staffs' Association (TSSA),[1][2] and a former Labour Party politician. She was a member of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the Labour Party until September 2013, and was Chair of the Party for the year 2012–2013.[3]

She is a councillor in Ashford Borough Council, Kent, where she was Leader of the Labour Group.[4][5] In 2012 she stood as Labour candidate for Police and Crime Commissioner for Kent.[1][6]

Harriet Yeo was deselected as a Labour candidate for the 2015 elections and left to join Ukip the next day. She was also removed as Labour Group Leader of Ashford Council, after being accused of non-attendance at council meetings and a failure undertake council casework [7]

In 2015, she left the Labour Party due to Ed Miliband's refusal to promise an EU In/Out Referendum.,[4][8] and announced support for the UK Independence Party (UKIP) without becoming a member of UKIP, sitting as an independent councillor.[4][8] Her daughter had also left Labour to stand for UKIP in the 2013 Kent County Council elections for the Ashford South division, an election where Harriet Yeo had also stood for Labour unsuccessfully in the Ashford East division.[5]

On 24 March 2015, it was announced that Yeo had fully joined UKIP and was standing as replacement for Janice Atkinson UKIP's Prospective Parliamentary Candidate in Folkestone & Hythe, who had been removed from UKIP due to alleged expenses fraud the day before.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Harriet Bronwen Yeo". choosemypcc.org.uk. Retrieved 23 February 2015.
  2. ↑ Isabel Oakeshott (13 October 2013). "'Chauvinist' union's lap-dancing and lies". Sunday Times (London). Retrieved 17 February 2015. The former Labour NEC chief tells Isabel Oakeshott how she was ousted from her union presidency by dirty tricks
  3. ↑ "Labour's National Executive Committee". Labour Party. Retrieved 25 September 2013.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Harriet Yeo, former Labour NEC chairwoman, backs UKIP". BBC. 17 February 2015. Retrieved 17 February 2015.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Maria Chiorando (22 February 2015). "Rocky road for Ukip as media assaults deflect defection boost". kentnews.co.uk. Retrieved 23 February 2015.
  6. ↑ Paul Francis (18 June 2012). "Labour's police commissioner candidate Harriet Yeo a victim of crime". Kent Online. Retrieved 17 February 2015.
  7. ↑ http://labourlist.org/2015/02/former-chair-of-labours-nec-leaves-party-to-support-ukip/
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 "'Labour's Harriet Yeo leaves party to support Ukip in general election'". The Independent. 2015-02-17. Retrieved 2015-03-25.