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I call it the jungle room, reveals ex-MP Edwina Currie By Angela Epstein Updated: 16:56, 26 May 2024 e-mail View comments Edwina Currie, 77, is an author and one of Westminster's most colourful alumna, writes Angela Epstein. The MP for South Derbyshire from 1983 to 1997, Liverpool-born Currie served as a minister under Margaret Thatcher. But her career came to an abrupt end in 1988 when, as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health, she issued a warning about salmonella in British eggs and resigned.
Married twice – her second husband, John Jones, died of cancer in 2020 – Edwina has two children and two grandchildren and lives in Derbyshire. What did your parents teach you about money? To be careful with it. There wasn't much around in a devastated Liverpool after the Second World War.
My dad was a tailor and mum was a housewife. Dad sadly died of a heart attack in 1975 at the age of 65, leaving £400. We children encouraged mum to go to work – not least to help with the grieving process.
She worked until the age of 75, doing the filing for a firm of solicitors. Edwina Currie reads from a mock Daily Mail to promote her bestselling book, A Parliamentary Affair, in 1994 Have you ever struggled to make ends meet? It wasn't easy in the early years of my first marriage. Ray [her first husband] was a chartered accountant; we were living in Birmingham with two small children and had a mortgage that was drowning us.
We'd .