There are so many things wrong with Harriet Harman's interview in the Sunday Times, it is difficult to know where to start.

Firstly, it is always best to have one leader.  A single, clear voice for any particular context.  We, the governed, should have the ability to choose directly who this leader should be.  We don't.  We are constrained to select a party who can choose and replace the leader at will.

Secondly, this leader should be accountable to the people.  They aren't.  They are accountable only to the party they lead.  Parliament is woefully unrepresentative in every respect.  If our representatives were appointed by sortition (random selection, like juries) we would have a truly representative body.  The last thing the parties want.

Thirdly, if Harriet Harman had to stand for popular election as leader of the country, she wouldn't stand a snowball's chance in hell.  There are many women, however, who would.

The answer to proper representation and accountability is to get rid of the system that put Ms Harman in power and replace it with a radically different one that puts people (that's men, women, black, white, young, old, publicly-, privately- and un-educated alike) in charge.