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Harriet Yeo is a British trade unionist and Labour Party politician. She is a member of the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party, and a member of the Executive Committee of TSSA. She serves as a Labour councillor in Ashford, Kent. The Labour Party has been, since its founding in the early 20th century, the principal political party of the left in the United Kingdom. ...
The National Executive Committee or NEC is the chief administrative body of the UK Labour Party. ...
The Transport Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA) is a Trade Union for white collar workers in the transport industry in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. ...
Ashford is a town spanning the confluence of the River Upper Great Stour, River East Stour, Aylesford Stream, Whitewater Dyke, Ruckinge Dyke and the resulting River Great Stour, in the borough of Ashford, located just south of the North Downs, in Kent, United Kingdom. ...
Yeo worked as a trade union official and is now a fundraising trainer for a national charity. She has a daughter, Angharad. In 2005 Yeo led a campaign named 'Forgetmenot' for better hospital care for the elderly following her mother's experience. Her mother, Barbara, herself a former matron specialising in care for the elderly, had died after entering hospital with constipation. Yeo believed she was given too much morphine to relieve pain from arthritis, later contracting a hospital-acquired infection and dying aged 83. [1] Constipation or irregularity, is a condition of the digestive system where a person (or animal) experiences hard feces that are difficult to eliminate; it may be extremely painful, and in severe cases (fecal impaction) lead to symptoms of bowel obstruction. ...
Morphine (INN) (IPA: ) is an highly potent opiate analgesic drug and is the principal active agent in opium and the prototypical opiate. ...
Arthritis (from Greek arthro-, joint + -itis, inflammation; plural: arthritides) is a group of conditions where there is damage caused to the joints of the body. ...
In September 2006, she attacked Tony Blair over his parenting, particularly of his son Ewan Blair, contrasting it with a recent policy announcement he had made criticising single and teenage mothers, implying that they frequently entered prostitution and suggesting that state intervention in parenting could happen "pre-birth". For other people of the same name, see Tony Blair (disambiguation) Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953)[1] is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service, Leader of the UK Labour Party, and Member of the UK Parliament...
A sex worker in Germany. ...
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