Edwina Currie
| Edwina Currie | |
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Currie in 2009
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| Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Health | |
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In office 10 September 1986 – 16 December 1988 |
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| Prime Minister | Margaret Thatcher |
| Preceded by | John Major |
| Succeeded by | Roger Freeman |
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Member of Parliament for South Derbyshire |
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In office 9 June 1983 – 1 May 1997 |
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| Preceded by | Constituency created |
| Succeeded by | Mark Todd |
| Personal details | |
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Edwina Cohen 13 October 1946 Liverpool, Lancashire, England |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Ray Currie (m. 1972-1997) John Jones (m. 2001) |
| Children | 2 |
| Residence | Whaley Bridge, Derbyshire |
| Alma mater |
St. Anne's College, Oxford London School of Economics |
Edwina Jones (born 13 October 1946), 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.
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 2002, publication of Currie's Diaries (1987–92) caused a sensation, as they revealed a four-year affair with John Major between 1984 and 1988.
Currie was born in south Liverpool to an Orthodox Jewish family. She is however not particularly religious, stating in a 2000 interview that she found "religious mumbo jumbo hard to swallow in any faith." She went to the Liverpool Institute High School for Girls in Blackburne House, in the Canning area of Liverpool, where she was deputy Head Girl.
Currie studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at St Anne's College, Oxford, where she was taught by Gabriele Taylor; subsequently, she gained an MA in economic history from the London School of Economics.
From 1975 until 1986, she was a Birmingham City Councillor for Northfield. In 1983, she stood for parliament as a Conservative Party candidate, and was elected as the member for South Derbyshire. Frequently outspoken, she was described as "a virtually permanent fixture on the nation's TV screen saying something outrageous about just about anything" and "the most outspoken and sexually interested woman of her political generation."
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