Harriet Bronwen Yeo[1] is a British trade unionist, a former Treasurer and President of Transport Salaried Staffs' Association (TSSA),[1][2] and a UK Independence Party (UKIP) politician who stood unsuccessfully for parliament in Folkestone and Hythe at the 2015 general election.
[1][7] Yeo was deselected as a Labour candidate for the 2015 local elections and left to join UKIP the next day.
[8] In February 2015, she left the Labour Party, blaming Ed Miliband's refusal to promise an EU In/Out Referendum,[5][9] and announced support for the UK Independence Party (UKIP) without becoming a member of UKIP, sitting as an independent councillor.
[5][10] 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.
[3] In the general election held on 7 May, Yeo came second in Folkestone and Hythe, losing to Damian Collins (Conservative) with 12,526 votes.