Edwina - Still
Stunning
FEATURE
Below: Edwina in full flow at the
WI meeting held at Medina.
Bottom: All the money raised from book
sales goes to Edwina’s chosen charity.
at Sixty
She’s a woman who knows how
to hit the headlines, and even
though she collects her bus pass
later this year, there is little
likelihood of this pensioner
stepping out of the limelight.
Edwina Currie invites love and
loathing in equal measure with her
political and romantic bombshells,
but whatever the controversy, she
never fails to touch everything with
the glamorous style that she has
made her own.
The former MP, who after her
election defeat in 1997 took up a
new career as a writer and media
personality, was on the Island
recently to speak at the Women’s
Institute annual meeting at Medina
Theatre.
Her talk was highly entertaining,
even for a mere bloke like me,
and she spared the time in a busy
schedule to talk to me afterwards.
She was anxious to return to her
daughter, who was about to give
birth, but she was showing no signs
of turning into a dear old granny.
Glamorous and forthright, she
answered my questions with the
confidence and good humour that
has sustained her throughout her
career. I asked her what was her
worst moment as an MP, and she
replied without hesitation.
“Eggs,” she said. In 1988 she
caused a furore when, as a junior
health minister, she warned of the
widespread danger of salmonella
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