Harriet Slater CBE (née Evans; 1903 – 12 October 1976) was a British Labour and Co-operative politician.
[1] 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.
[4] 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.
"[1] Slater's maiden speech was about racial justice, made spontaneously because of her strong feelings about equality.
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