Edwina Currie

Edwina Currie (née Cohen; on 13 October 1946) is a former British government minister and Conservative MP.

• 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).

• 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.