Edwina cruelly Hard-up mother’s tears at former MP Currie’s ‘good life’ jibe

FORMER Tory MP Edwina Currie left a struggling mum in tears on live radio — after blaming her debts on "living the good life" in the past. 

The ex-junior health secretary stunned phone-in caller Hayley Sanderson who said she often went hungry to ensure that her two small sons could eat.

Oxford-educated Edwina, 65, suggested Hayley had hit trouble because she had previously "lived life to the full".

She said on the BBC's Five Live: "When the money was coming in — this sounds like there were two salaries coming in, and no savings — life was being lived to the full. And a very good life indeed.         More Read