Tuesday's Quote of the Day
09:50 UK time, Tuesday, 16 September 2008
"I'd spend my money on Glastonbury or Duran Duran records" - Home Secretary Jacqui Smith on how she spent her holiday job earnings.
In an effort to "round out" the female faces in the Cabinet, Company magazine has done a series of interviews focusing on personal issues. Thus we learn that Yvette Cooper, Chief Secretary to the Treasury, had ME for three years; Communities Secretary Hazel Blears was asked at a job interview what contraception she was using because "they couldn't afford to employ a woman who was going to get pregnant", and Home Secretary Jacqui Smith betrays her new romantic phase as she tells how she spent the money she earned cleaning cabins and loos on a ferry.
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