As the satirical puppets return, Edwina Currie, Neil Kinnock and Ken Livingstone discuss their portrayal in the original
The junior health minister in Margaret Thatcher’s government was portrayed as a vampire or Cruella de Vil.
As far as I was concerned, the fact that they were lampooning me on the programme was fine, because I was a very junior minister, and to get noticed was great – it suggested I was getting my little message across.
What happened was that those [members of the cabinet] who weren’t in it, really wanted to be in it. You felt that you had made it on to the top satirical programme, which meant that you were recognised.
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