Edwina Currie
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
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Back to Basics was absolute humbug, wasn't it?
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If a book doesn't grab me in the first chapter, I may not bother with it, ... As writers we're told that you have to catch readers in the first paragraph, but that is easier said than done.
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One wants to mutter deeply that apart from having two good legs I also have two good degrees and it is just possible that I do know what I'm talking about
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It's sad he was unable to say a kind word.
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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.
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Good Christian people who wouldn't dream of misbehaving will not catch AIDS.
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Small, short-sighted, blonde, barbed - she reminds me of a bright little hedgehog.
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If someone asks for a soft drink at a party, we no longer think he is a wimp.
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There's no smoke without mud being flung around.
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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.
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I won't claim the workhouses didn't have their problems, but they were set up by people who cared.
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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.
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One man's priority is another man's extravagence.
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Businessmen should stand or fall on their own two feet.