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LABOUR deputy leader Harriet Harman accused Gordon Brown of sexism yesterday in a speech on women in politics.
Mr Harman revealed that the former Labour prime minister refused to appoint her as deputy PM when John Prescott stepped down from the role in 2007.
She lifted the lid on sexism at the heart of the New Labour government in a speech in the House of Commons.
“Imagine my surprise when having won a hard-fought election to succeed John Prescott as deputy leader of the Labour Party, I discovered that I was not to succeed him as deputy prime minister,” she said.
“If one of the men had won the deputy leadership would that have happened? Would they have put up with it? I doubt it.”
Mr Brown’s disgraced former spin-doctor, Damian McBride, took to Twitter to defend his old boss.
“As every man and woman who ever worked for him could attest, Gordon judged people on only one thing — were they useless or not,” he wrote.
