article_snippet.sent: Miliband today refused to guarantee that Harman would become Deputy Prime Minister if Labour wins the general election.
article_snippet.sent: Just hours before the party launched the party women's manifesto, Labour leader declined several chances to say that his deputy would get the second most powerful job if his deputy gets to Number 10.
article_snippet.sent: The snub comes just three days after Harman Harman made clear that Harman intended to take the role were Labour to make it back into power.
article_snippet.sent: Miliband today refused to confirm that deputy Labour leader Harriet Harman would become Deputy Prime Minister if Labour wins the general election .
article_snippet.sent: Harman deputy Labour leader Harriet Harman has previously suggested that Gordon Brown's refusal in 2007 to maker Harman Deputy PM was sexist.
article_snippet.sent: Miliband also refused to guarantee Harman the role.
article_snippet.sent: Miliband told BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour: 'Well Harman's the shadow deputy Prime Minister at the moment. '
article_snippet.sent: Miliband remarks will infuriate Miss Harman, who told the BBC's Andrew Marr show on Sunday that Harman intended to become Deputy Prime Minister. '
article_snippet.sent: Well I'm Shadow Deputy Prime Minister
article_snippet.sent: and I hope that we'll get into government,' Harman said.
article_snippet.sent: Last year Miss Harman used a speech to criticise Mr Brown for not making Harman Deputy PM when Harman was elected Labour's deputy leader. '
article_snippet.sent: 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,' Harman said. '
highlights_snippet.sent: Labour leader declines several times to say that Labour leader deputy would get job .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Harman suggested it was sexist of Gordon Brown not to make Harman .
  