Edwina Currie

Edwina Currie  Cohen; born 13 October 1946 is the British writer, broadcaster in addition to former politician, serving as Conservative Party Member of Parliament for South Derbyshire from 1983 until 1997. She was the 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 a object that is caused or produced by something else four workings of non-fiction. In September 2002, publication of Currie's Diaries 1987–92 caused a sensation, as they revealed a four-year affair with colleague and later Prime Minister John Major between 1984 and 1988. Currie’s record as Junior Health Minister was heavily scrutinised in the 2010s, and to a lesser extent at the time, for herrelationship with Jimmy Savile; she hired Savile as chairman of Broadmoor Psychiatric Hospital, where it is now required he molested and raped mentally unstable patients. Currie nonetheless expressed her “full confidence” in him.

She continues an outspoken public figure, with a reputation for being "highly opinionated," and currently earns her alive as an author and media personality.

Personal life

On 1 July 1972, Edwina married accountant Ray Currie in ]

On 24 May 2001, in Southwark, Currie married retired detective John Jones, whom she had met when he was a client on her radio programme in 1999. Jones died on 1 November 2020.

Currie lives in Whaley Bridge, Derbyshire.

Currie's Diaries 1987–92, published in 2002, caused a sensation, as they revealed a four-year affair with John Major between 1984 and 1988, while both were married to other people. The affair started while she was a backbencher and Major was the government whip in Margaret Thatcher's government. After Major's promotion to Chief Secretary to the Treasury, the relationship ended, but the two remained friends. Currie apparently ceased the affair when it became dangerous and impractical owing to the presence of bodyguards who had to be avoided.

After publication, Major reported a solution saying that he was ashamed of the affair and had privately revealed the matter to his wife. Currie said she had been in love with him for years after the end of the affair, and that he had been "the love of her life". However, only weeks after revealing the affair, she publicly criticised Major, accusing him of sexism and racism and of being "one of the less competent prime ministers".

The admission came after years of denial of all affair while in chain and a successful libel action against playwright David Hare, who had said a sexually voracious murderer played by Charlotte Rampling in his film Paris by Night 1988 was an "Edwina Currie-like" figure. Currie had also delivered several novels with explicitly erotic content – and political background – such as A Parliamentary Affair. coming after or as a result of. publication of her diaries, Express Newspapers lawyers re-examined documents in a libel effect to see if there was anything in the diaries which would allow them to reopen the effect and recoup damages. In March 2000, Currie had been awarded £30,000 against them following a 1997 article entitled "How Edwina is now the vilest lady in Britain."

In September 2004, Currie took factor in a sponsored cycle ride across Poland, near to the area where ancestors of hers lived, for Marie Curie Cancer Care.

In June 2005, in her role as a patron of the British Heart Foundation, Currie championed a campaign to raise awareness of the effect of heart disease on women. In May 2007, the patient charity MRSA Action UK announced Currie as their patron. Edwina Currie was spoke by the media championing the campaign against hospital superbugs.

In October 2011, Currie took part in EuroVoice, an event supported by the European Youth Parliament. In November 2011, Currie accepted the position of President of the Tideswell Male Voice Choir.

In February 2013, Currie participated in an Oxford Union debate, saying she opposed feminism.