Edwina Currie

thumb|right|Edwina Currie in 2009. Edwina Currie (née Cohen; on 13 October 1946) is a British writer, broadcaster and former politician who served as Conservative Member of Parliament for South Derbyshire from 1983 until 1997. She was a Junior Health Minister for two years, resigning in 1988 during the salmonella-in-eggs controversy. Quotes thumb|Edwina Currie Good Christian people who wouldn't dream of misbehaving will not catch AIDS. "Mrs Currie Dishes Up Aids Advice", The Yorkshire Post (13 February 1987). 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... "Mrs Currie Dishes Up Aids Advice", The Yorkshire Post (13 February 1987). Most of the egg production in this country, sadly, is now affected with salmonella. "Egg industry fury over salmonella claim", BBC News (1988) 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. Best Ever Spitting Image TV documentary (2006). Prime Minister John Major was depicted having a crush on Virginia Bottomley, but Currie and Major had an affair from 1984 to 1988. [Referring to individuals seeking asylum] The obvious thing that 1,200 young men are going to need in a village like little Piddington is a brothel. I don't think they're going to provide that. I have a feeling that is not going to be allowed. From an interview on Times Radio, as cited in "Edwina Currie defends ‘brothel for asylum seekers’ remark", The Times (14 August 2026). Julie Bindel described Currie's comments as a "ridiculous contribution to this important debate". External links Category:1946 births Category:Living people Category:Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom Category:Jews from the United Kingdom Category:Conservative Party (UK) politicians Category:Novelists from England Category:Memoirists from England Category:Diarists Category:People from Liverpool Category:Women authors from England Category:Women politicians in the United Kingdom Category:Women born in the 1940s Category:Government ministers of the United Kingdom Category:Jewish atheists