Dromey married Harriet Harman in 1982 in the borough of Brent, after meeting her on the picket line of the Grunwick dispute in 1977; Harman was legal advisor to the Grunwick Strike Committee. They have two sons (born February 1983 and November 1984) and a daughter (born January 1987). Labour colleague Patricia Hewitt is godmother to one of their children.[28] Their son Joe Dromey is a councillor in the London borough of Lewisham.[29] The couple decided to send their children to selective schools, the subject of negative comment at the time because it runs counter to Labour Party policy. Dromey served for ten years on the executive of the National Council for Civil Liberties,[30] a pressure group for which Harman worked as legal officer.[31] They have a house in Suffolk,[32] in addition to a home in Herne Hill, south London.[33]