Harriet Slater

Harriet Slater CBE (née Evans; 3 July 1903 – 12 October 1976) was a British Labour and Co-operative politician.

Life and career Slater, née Evans, was born in Tunstall, Staffordshire, on 3 July 1903. Educated at Hanley High School and Dudley Teachers' Training College, she was National Organiser for the Co-operative Party from 1942 to 1953, and a local councillor in Stoke-on-Trent from 1933 to 1965. From 1964 to 1966, she was a Government whip, the first woman to become one, with the formal title of Lord of the Treasury.

Ruth Smeeth writes that Slater saw her role in Parliament as "being a practical advocate for the working-class, especially working-class women ... As her parliamentary colleague Laurie Pavitt MP once wrote of her, Harriet was Stoke-on-Trent. She knew what mattered to the people she represented, because she was one of them."