A tale of two Liverpool MPs from different ends of the city and of the political spectrum, but linked by eggs. Bessie Braddock was born in Everton in 1899. A champion of the rights of the poor, she joined the Communist Party in 1920, later leaving it for the Labour Party and serving as an MP for Liverpool for 24 years. Edwina Currie (nee Cohen) was born in Childwall in 1949, a champion of the rights of the rich she joined the Conservative party and worked as an MP for South Derbyshire for 14 years. Braddock is commemorated by a statue (pictured) at Lime Street Station showing her holding an egg (she introduced the lion standard mark on British eggs). Currie iws unlikely to ever be commemorated by a statue in Liverpool, but if she did ever return to her native city by train she might not be so pleased to see a statue of a politician holding an egg. Her own ministerial career was ended by comments she made in 1988 about most egg production in the UK being affected with salmonella.
Posted on: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 22:42:48 +0000
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