Theresa May Cleavage Tweet From Edwina Currie During Budget 2015 Made Everyone Uncomfortable
Edwina Currie Made Everyone Feel Awkward With This Theresa May Tweet
Jack Sommers— The Huffington Post UK
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The very important debate on the future of economic Britain threatened to take an unexpected turn today, after the awkward intervention of former Tory minister and more recently I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! contestant Edwina Currie.
The 68-year-old set Twitter alight after remarking to her 16,000 followers that Theresa May's cleavage was "great".
Currie was replying to The Sun's political editor Tom Newton Dunn, who tweeted benignly about May choice of a red clothing when George Osborne had chosen a grey tie.
She wrote back: "Great cleavage though, eh? Feisty lady, bold statement, love it."
This prompted Mr Newton Dunn to reply: "For real?"
She wasn't only one to encourage people to focus on Mrs May instead of the chancellor.
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Budget 2015: The Main Points
An end to austerity! Eventually.(01 of10)
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The squeeze on public spending is to end a year earlier than planned, so that in 2019/20, spending will grows in line with the growth of the economy - bringing state spending as a share of national income to the same level as in 2000. (credit:goir via Getty Images)
A penny off a pint (again)(02 of10)
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Beer duty will be cut for the third year in a row and wine duty will be frozen. (credit:nitrub via Getty Images)
Millions to get a tiny tax cut(03 of10)
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Personal tax allowance will go up to £10,800, from £10,600, next year and £11,000 the year after. Osborne says this is a tax cut for 27 million people. The 40p income tax threshold will be upped to £43,300 in 2017-8, up from £42,385. (credit:maybefalse via Getty Images)
ISA, ISA baby(04 of10)
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There will be help for first time property buyers and savers with subsidised ISAs to help get people on the property ladder and the first £1,000 of interest will be tax-free. The annual savings limit for ISA ill be increased to £15,240 and a fully flexible ISA will be created. New Help to Buy ISA for first-time buyers that allows the government to top-up by £50 every £200 saved for a deposit. From April, next year, a new personal savings allowance will mean first £1,000 of interest on savings will be tax-free. (credit:Dhb-photography via Getty Images)
The end of the annual tax return (Yes, we knew that already)(05 of10)
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We already knew this but the Chancellor announced the abolition of the annual tax return. "People should be working for themselves, not the taxman," he says. (credit:PA/PA Wire)
The worst will pay more to the best(06 of10)
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Another £75 million will be taken from Libor fines, paid by misbehaving banks, and given to charities for military regiments that fought in Afghanistan. The government will also pay towards a permanent memorial to those who died in the wars Afghanistan and Iraq and help to renovate the Battle of Britain memorials. (credit:Ben Birchall/PA Wire)
More tax from people with big pensions(07 of10)
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The pension pot lifetime allowance - the amount you can receive in pension payments without incurring an extra tax charge - will be reduced from £1.25m to £1m from next year, which is expected to save £600 million a year. (credit:Rosemary Calvert via Getty Images)
Praise the Lord! More money for church roof repair(08 of10)
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In The Autumn Statement, Osborne announced a £15 million fund for repairing church roofs. But it's so oversubscribed, it's going to be trebled. (credit:Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP)
The 'Google Tax'(09 of10)
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Osborne confirmed a tax on "diverted profits" will into effect in April. It will apply on multinational firms that make money in the UK but move profits offshore. (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Inheritence tax avoidance probe(10 of10)
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Osborne announced that a review of avoidance of inheritance tax through "deeds of variation" would be conducted and report back in Autumn. Deeds of variation allow changes to be made to a person's will within two years of their death, provided all the beneficiaries agree. It follows accusations Ed Miliband and his brother David avoided tax this way after the death of their father. (credit:eric1513 via Getty Images)
Tabloid The Sunday People suggested The Daily Mail could focus on her because of the camera's "unfortunate angle".
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Theresa May on budget day
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...And in the Commons
Mrs Currie, a former health minister, claimed she was told to get off Twitter once by her husband after she was became the centre of a social media spat over her comments about food banks.
She had told BBC Radio Stoke: "'I get very, very troubled at the number of people who are using food banks who think that it's fine to pay to feed their dog, their dog is in good nick and beautiful, but they never learn to cook, they never learn to manage and the moment they've got a bit of spare cash they're off getting another tattoo.