Major set to speak on affair with Currie

FORMER lovers Edwina Currie and John Major were last night preparing to make their first public appearances since their affair was revealed.

Mrs Currie was returning home early from a holiday to give a series of media interviews today before honouring an appointment with a writers’ group.

And Mr Major is today due to give a speech in the US for a charity of which he is patron. Neither have been seen in public since Saturday’s bombshell disclosure by Mrs Currie that they had an affair between 1984 and 1988, when she was a junior health minister and he was in the whips’ office.

Both of tomorrow’s engagements were planned before the affair came to light through the serialisation of Mrs Currie’s diary in The Times.

Mr Major will answer press questions at a news conference in Dallas, Texas, hours before he is due to deliver a lecture at a charity dinner. Organisers said they were expecting a media “feeding frenzy” but promised the former prime minister would make a statement about his personal life.

A spokeswoman for Mrs Currie said she would take questions at the end of her speaking engagement, with the Nottingham Writers’ Club, but would not take press questions.

She was believed to have agreed to do at least two broadcast interviews earlier in the day.