Mellor: Currie acted like a cheap trollop

Senior Conservatives and close friends of John Major today rallied around the former Premier as more details emerged of his four-year affair with Edwina Currie.

The bombshell disclosure by Mrs Currie, that she and Mr Major were lovers between 1984 and 1988, when she was a junior Health Minister and he was in the Whips Office emerged at the weekend as The Times published extracts from her diaries.