Edwina Currie
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Edwina Currie
Edwina Jones, born Edwina Cohen and commonly known by her first married name, Edwina Currie, is a former British Member of Parliament. First elected as a Conservative Party MP in 1983, she was a Junior Health Minister for two years, before resigning in 1988 during the salmonella in eggs controversy...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth13 October 1946
CityLiverpool, England
mud smoke
There's no smoke without mud being flung around.
senior flirting should-have
The suggestion that the prime minister had been flirting with one of the senior women cabinet ministers made me laugh every time I saw it, and I thought, "if you only knew!" Perhaps they should have pushed it a bit harder.
basics humbug back-to-basics
Back to Basics was absolute humbug, wasn't it?
christian dream people
Good Christian people who wouldn't dream of misbehaving will not catch AIDS.
littles blonde hedgehogs
Small, short-sighted, blonde, barbed - she reminds me of a bright little hedgehog.
party breakfast household
The Labour Party is being led by a woman but she has not been elected to anything. She is the lady who makes the breakfast in the Kinnock household.
people poverty problem
I won't claim the workhouses didn't have their problems, but they were set up by people who cared.
fall two feet
Businessmen should stand or fall on their own two feet.
giving advice pieces
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
country sex wife
My message to businessmen of this country when they go abroad on business is that there is one thing above all they can take with them to stop them catching AIDS, and that is the wife.
kindness sad unable
It's sad he was unable to say a kind word.
character men priorities
One man's priority is another man's extravagence.
running attitude thinking
Margaret Thatcher drove us like there was no tomorrow. But I think there is a genuine feeling now that this macho, workaholic, earn lots of money way of life has run its course. There has been a shift in attitude. People are looking for a more balanced approach.
party thinking soft-drinks
If someone asks for a soft drink at a party, we no longer think he is a wimp.