The egg lady speaks out
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riving a truck and becoming an MP: these are the only two things you still have to be 21 to do legally in this country, according to Edwina Currie. Thanks to Currie, of course, something else you had to
be 21 to do no longer applies. She introducedthe bill last
month on which MPs voted to lower the age of male homosexual consent to 18.
The former health minister made her quip at the Lady Truckers Club's Women of Achievement Awards earlier this month, where she was guest of honour (see Driver's News, page 16.
Praising LTC founder Ilona Richards, Currie remarked that Richords would make an excellent MP and suggested that they should swap jobs. The only problem of course, is that truck drivers, unlike MPs, have to pass a test to prove they know what they're doing...