Dispatches: Edwina Currie

Record ID: 125155
  • Title: Dispatches: Edwina Currie
  • Date: 25th October 1989
  • Summary: Former health minister Mrs Edwina Currie MP admits for the first time on Dispatches that she was wrong to use the words about salmonella in eggs that lead to her resignation last December. This weeks Dispatches investigates Edwina Curries speedy rise to and sudden fall from ministerial office. Michael Cockerell assesses how within 5 years of entering Parliament she became the most instantly recognisable Tory politician after Mrs Thatcher, how the calculated way in which she grabbed maximum publicity made her few friends on the Conservative backbenches, and how her remarks on salmonella in eggs brought down on her head pent-up feelings of jealousy and resentment among many Tory MPs.
  • Description:TBA
  • Broadcaster:Channel 4
  • Collection: Channel 4
  • Genre:Documentary and Factual
  • Producer:Endemol UK Productions
  • Programme Episode:Episode 1
  • Transmission Date:25/10/1989
  • Rights:On Request
  • Decade: 1980s
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