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Hace 4 días · EDWINA CURRIE, 77, is an author and one of Westminster’s most colourful alumna, writes ANGELA EPSTEIN. The MP for South Derbyshire from 1983 to 1997, Liverpool-born Currie served as a minister under Margaret Thatcher.
Hace 3 días · Edwina Currie, a 77-year-old author and former UK Member of Parliament (MP), has had a life marked by political highs, financial lessons, and personal resilience. Born in Liverpool, Currie served MP for South Derbyshire from 1983 to 1997 and was a minister under Margaret Thatcher.
Hace 3 días · Edwina Currie was Agriculture Minister years ago who has flip flopped on #brexit more times than most of us have had hot dinners! She was a remainer who ba...
Hace 3 días · We lost Ann Taylor, Joan Lestor and Shirley Summerskill and gained Edwina Currie and Ann Winterton. Hardly sisters!” (Some context for younger readers: Currie told Jenni Murray on Woman’s Hour that nice married women like Currie – who was having an affair with John Major at the time – didn’t get cervical cancer.
Hace 6 días · In 1987, Conservative health minister Edwina Currie, took it upon herself to announce that "good Christian people would not get AIDS". People were frightened. Many chose not to talk publicly, some families chose to lie about cause of death if they had been infected with HIV.
Hace 4 días · GMB star Martin Lewis clashes with Edwina Currie over cost of living crisis: ‘Let me get a word in edgeways!’
Hace 4 días · Atonement actor Vanessa Redgrave, Dawn French and MP Edwina Currie attended. “The thing I most remember about it was that we got there early and it was all the lesbians blowing up the bloody balloons,” said Ms Cunningham-Reid. “All the gay guys were still at home in bed. It felt completely bonkers.”
