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You try raising a family on £1,000 a month Edwina: Mother challenges ex-MP after clash on national radio over family finances
- Young parent said she skipped meals to feed her children
- She said she rarely and went out and had no credit cards
- Ex-Tory MP quizzed her on how often she fed her pet dog
By Emma Reynolds
Last updated at 11:36 PM on 17th February 2012
From egg scandals in the 1980s to more recent outspoken views on poverty, Edwina Currie has long been no stranger to controversy.
And the former Conservative minister has been at it again, this time reducing a young mother to tears on national radio by telling her she had only herself to blame for her family’s struggling finances.
Yesterday, however, Haley Sanderson hit back and invited Mrs Currie to ‘swap lives for a week’, accusing her of living ‘in a totally different world’.
Struggling: Haley Sanderson was reduced to tears on national radio after Edwina Currie told her she had only herself to blame for her family’s struggling finances. She is pictured here with her two sons Callum, left, and Dylan, right
Miss Sanderson had called the Radio Five Live phone-in, on which the ex-MP was appearing, to comment on a study suggesting some mothers were going without food because they had so little money.
The 24-year-old – who has two jobs and does not receive benefits – claimed to regularly miss meals so her two children could eat. Her family of four, she said ekes out a living on around £1,000 a month.
But if she was expecting a sympathetic ear in Mrs Currie, she was to be disappointed.
While millions listened to the show on Thursday, the 65-year-old former junior health minister – who has more recently had roles in reality television shows including Hell’s Kitchen and Strictly Come Dancing – swiftly attacked Miss Sanderson over her debts.
Dishing out advice: Edwina Currie told the young mother her debts were caused by previously ‘living life to the full’
Mrs Currie said: ‘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.
‘But when that’s no longer the case, when there’s no longer money coming in, you have to evaluate whether you are going to be able to get back to the good life quickly or not. In which case, you are going to have to think about maybe declaring yourselves bankrupt.’
Choking back tears Miss Sanderson could only respond: ‘Edwina, I’ve never lived life to the full. I don’t go out every weekend. You’ve really upset me.’
Yesterday, having recovered her composure, she spoke to the Daily Mail about her on-air ordeal.
‘I was so annoyed when she said I’ve been living the good life,’ she said. ‘She was suggesting we had got into debts or it was our fault we didn’t have money. It’s not the case at all. I work two jobs and my partner works fitting windows. We both work hard but we have to watch every pound.
‘I don’t buy new clothes, we don’t go on expensive holidays. I don’t have Sky TV and I’ve never had Sky TV. People like Edwina Currie live in a totally different world.
‘I don’t think [she] realises that things are difficult for a lot of people at the moment.’
Miss Sanderson said her partner David Nicol, 24, also went without meals two or three times a week.
The couple often skip breakfast and lunch to ensure there is enough food for sons Callum, four, and Dylan, seven months.
She admitted they struggled to afford ‘meat and two veg’ meals and lived off chicken dippers, cereal and soup.
Miss Sanderson – who insists she has no credit cards or catalogue debts – works part time as an assistant at a care home for the elderly and has a second job with a loans company, earning of a total of £400 a month. The family’s financial woes worsened when Mr Nicol lost his full-time job as a window fitter.
He now works part time and earns up to £700 a month.
The mortgage on their two-bedroom terraced home is currently £450 a month – and they are in arrears.
High life: Mrs Currie shows off her luxurious home in the Peak District, along with expensive souvenirs bought on her travels
Still angry at her treatment by Mrs Currie, she said: ‘I was just really annoyed she’s suggested we’d had good times and were paying for it now, it’s not like that.
‘We’re paying off things like council tax, not luxuries. We just live day to day on the rest. Maybe Edwina Currie should swap lives with us for a week and see what it’s like trying to raise two kids on that money.’
The phone-in came after a survey of 2,000 parents by online forum Netmums found that one in five was regularly missing meals so her children could eat.
Ironically, Miss Sanderson and Mrs Currie live only a few miles apart in Derbyshire – although the distance in their style of living is far greater.
Miss Sanderson’s family lives in a small terraced house in the old mining town of Ilkeston. Mrs Currie, by contrast, is surrounded by magnificent views at the grand 16th-century home in the Peak District she shares with her second husband John Jones.
The former MP has previously told how she has made money from investing in property. She sold a home in Surrey for close to £800,000 in 2008.
She was forced to resign from the government in 1988 after she issued a warning that most egg production in the UK was affected with salmonella, bringing the industry to its knees.
And last autumn she caused outrage on Radio Five Live with her forthright views on poverty, insisting that nobody in the UK could be ‘starving’.
MS CURRIE’S CONTROVERSIAL PAST
Edwina Currie is famous for her outspoken comments. She caused huge scandal in 2002 when she admitted to having a four-affair with John Major in the 1980s.
She was forced to resign in December 1988 after she issued a warning about salmonella in British eggs.
The junior health secretary’s inaccurate assertion that ‘most of the egg production in this country, sadly, is now affected with salmonella’ sparked outrage among farmers and egg producers and caused huge damage to the industry.
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Edwina Currie reduces struggling mother to tears live on the radio by putting her debts down to her living ‘a very good life indeed’
- Young parent said she skipped meals to feed her children
- She said she rarely and went out and had no credit cards
- Ex-Tory MP quizzed her on how often she fed her pet dog
By Emma Reynolds
Last updated at 11:35 AM on 17th February 2012
Dishing out advice: Edwina Currie told the young mother her debts were caused by previously ‘living life to the full’
Former Tory MP Edwina Currie left a struggling mother in tears live on the radio by saying she was in debt because she had ‘lived a very good life indeed’.
The author and broadcaster clashed with Hayley Sanderson after the young mother claimed to regularly go hungry to feed her children.
Mrs Currie opined that the Derbyshire mother’s financial problems were down to the fact she had previously ‘lived life to the full’.
‘When the money was coming in, this sounds like there were two salaries coming in, and no savings, and life was being lived to the full and a very good life indeed,’ said former junior health secretary Mrs Currie in a Radio 5 Live phone-in yesterday.
‘But when that’s no longer the case, when there’s no longer money coming in, you have to evaluate whether you are going to be able to get back to the good life quickly or not. In which case, you are going to have to think about maybe declaring yourselves bankrupt.’
The tearful young mother, who had told Mrs Currie she had no credit cards, catalogue debts or satellite television, hit back.
‘Edwina, I’ve never lived life to the full. I don’t go out every weekend. You’ve really upset me,’ she said, bursting into tears.
‘We don’t buy clothes on a weekly basis. We’ve never lived life to the full.
‘I never said I’ve borrowed money from anywhere. I’m paying off old bills like council tax.’
Mrs Currie lives in a secluded home in Derbyshire’s Peak District, with her second husband John Jones – a retired detective.
Their High Peak house dates back to the 16th century and boasts magnificent views of Cracken Edge and the surrounding hills.
The 65-year-old, who was a Northfield councillor from 1975 to 1986 and appeared on Strictly Come Dancing last year, also probed Ms Sanderson on whether she had any pets.
When she said yes, Mrs Currie asked: ‘Do you feed your dog every day?’
‘Obviously that’s a priority along with feeding the children,’ said Ms Sanderson.
High life: Mrs Currie shows off her luxurious home in the Peak District, along with expensive souvenirs bought on her travels
Dog lover: The author and former Tory MP quizzed the Derbyshire woman on how often she fed her pet
Mrs Currie demanded: ‘So where’s all the money going Hayley?’
The young woman replied: ‘My partner lost his job a few months ago and I was on maternity leave. I’ve not long had my son.
Strictly frugal: Wealthy Mrs Currie suggested the Derbyshire mother could file for bankruptcy
‘Now he’s [her partner] only on two days a week. We’re still catching up from when he wasn’t working at all, so we’re catching up from bills from back then.’
Mrs Currie, who took part in a debate on poverty at a Birmingham’s church last year, owns two dogs – Sheba, a six-year-old German Shepherd, and George, a five-year-old chocolate Lab.
In October, Mrs Currie showed off her luxurious home, revealing dark wood furniture and plush oriental rugs. Proudly displaying souvenirs from foreign holidays along with her Spitting Image puppet, she said: ‘When it came up for sale at Sotheby’s I couldn’t resist it – a snip at £300.’
She said she began collecting expensive first editions of classic novels ten years ago, and owns a beautiful, bound copy of Charles Dickens’s famous Pickwick Papers.
It is not the first time Mrs Currie, who has published ten books since working in government, has offended people living in poverty or scraping by on low incomes.
In October she told 5 Live: ‘Are you telling me people in this country are going hungry? Seriously? Seriously?’ and said she ‘had great difficulty’ believing that people in Britain went without food.
In November she slammed a campaign to encourage wealthy pensioners to give their winter fuel allowance to the Community Foundation Network to help others less able to pay their bills.
‘By all means give to charity,’ she wrote in The Times. ‘But do not be blackmailed into giving it to this particular organisation. The CFN is a huge operation with £220m in endowments, according to its website.
‘It is really a recycling organisation – it brings in money from services and sends it back out to community-based bodies. So if you need the winter fuel allowance, I am glad you are getting it. But if you want to spend the money on a Saga holiday that is fine with me: you’ve earned it.’
The former MP was not available for comment last night.
The phone-in came after research showed that more than 70 per cent of families are now financially ‘on the edge’.
They are teetering on the brink of poverty and could face ruin if hit by further price increases or falls in their income, a study by parenting site Netmums found.
The survey of more than 2,000 mothers found that one in five was regularly missing meals so her children could eat.
A quarter of families are living on credit cards, 5 per cent take out regular payday loans and one in 100 has turned to loan sharks to stay afloat.
Nearly a third have borrowed money from friends and family and one in 20 has taken out a bank loan to fund everyday living.
Netmums founder Sally Russell said: ‘It’s shocking that seven in 10 families in the UK today are living on the edge of existence – but it’s a crisis that needs exposing.
‘Mums shouldn’t be missing meals to feed their children or turning to loan sharks in modern Britain.
‘Family finances are so strained that any more pressure will turn this personal crisis into a catastrophe for the nation.’
A spokeswoman for the Department for Work and Pensions said: ‘We continue to support low income families and put £6.5billion a year into financial support for lone parents, but we know that debt remains a real driver of poverty.
‘This is why we need credit unions to be supported and strengthened to ensure that illegal loan sharks can’t plague the homes of vulnerable people and offer a real alternative to doorstep and payday lenders.’
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