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Edwina Currie is a British former politician, serving as Conservative Party Member of Parliament from 1983 until 1997. She was a Junior Health Minister for two years, resigning in 1988 during the salmonella-in-eggs controversy.

By the time Currie lost her seat as an MP in 1997, she had begun a new career as a novelist and broadcaster. She is the author of six novels, and has also written four works of non fiction. In September 2002, publication of Currie's Diaries caused a sensation, as they revealed a four-year affair with colleague John Major between 1984 and 1988. Wikipedia  

✵ 13. October 1946
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Famous Edwina Currie Quotes

“My message to the businessmen of this country when they go abroad on business is that there is only one thing above all they can take with them to stop them catching AIDS - and that is the wife…”

Edwina Currie

" Mrs Currie Dishes Up Aids Advice http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/around-yorkshire/local-stories/mrs-currie-dishes-up-aids-advice-1-2433829", Yorkshire Post (February 13, 1987).

“Good Christian people who wouldn't dream of misbehaving will not catch AIDS.”

Edwina Currie

" Mrs Currie Dishes Up Aids Advice http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/around-yorkshire/local-stories/mrs-currie-dishes-up-aids-advice-1-2433829", Yorkshire Post (February 13, 1987).

“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.”

Edwina Currie

"Best Ever Spitting Image" TV documentary 2006.

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