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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.

— Edwina Currie Best Ever Spitting Image TV documentary (2006)

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Prime Minister John Major was depicted having a crush on Virginia Bottomley, but Currie and Major had an affair from 1984 to 1988.

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