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EDWINA CURRIE |
| Edwina Currie was born in Liverpool & graduated from Oxford University & the London School of Economics. She taught economics & economic history & was a tutor for the Open University. The start of her political career was with Birmingham City as a Councillor followed by being Chairman of the Central Birmingham Health Authority & subsequently serving as MP for South Derbyshire. |
| Edwina is a well-known broadcaster & author writing regularly for the national press & magazines. She has written several non-fiction books, including Life Lines, What Women Want, Three Line Quips & Diaries. She has also written a number of novels including A Parliamentary Affair, A Womans Place, She's Leaving Home, The Ambassador, Chasing Men & This Honourable House. |
| Edwina presents her own programme Late Night Currie for BBC Radio Five Live & is also frequently heard on Radio 4 & Radio 2. On television she has presented Sunday Supplement for Central TV, Espresso for Channel 5, Menu From Heaven for ITV & has appeared on numerous TV shows. |
| From 1985-86 Edwina was PPS (aide) to Sir Keith Joseph at the Department of Education & Science, from 1986-88 she was a government minister at the DHSS (later the Department of Health) under Margaret Thatcher & it was then that she resigned after her warning about food safety in eggs. John Major invited her to rejoin the government in 1992 but she declined & eventually lost her seat in the 1997 General Election. |
| As a pro-European, in June 1994 she was a candidate for the European Parliament for Beds & Milton Keynes. The Conservatives won 18 out of 87 seats & she was not returned. Between 1995-1997 Edwina was Chairman of the Conservative Group for Europe & between 1995-1999 was Vice-Chairman of the all-party European Movement. |
| Edwina has been the subject of several full-length documentary profiles including The Other Half for Channel 4 Dispatches & Vanessa's Day With... (Vanessa Feltz). |
| During December 1988 Edwina Currie was the runner-up to Mrs Thatcher in BBC Radio 4s Woman of the Year poll; the following year she came 6th in the same poll (between Mother Theresa & Raisa Gorbachev). In 1990 she was voted Speaker of the Year by the Association of Speakers Clubs & 1994 was chosen as Campaigner of the Year in The Spectator Parliamentarian of the Year awards for her work on homosexual equality. |
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