Conservative former minister Edwina Currie has told a newspaper she had a four-year affair with ex-prime minister John Major in the 1980s. The liaison began in 1984 when Mrs Currie was a backbencher and Mr Major a whip in Margaret Thatcher's government. Mrs Currie - who later became a health minister - says in her diaries, published in The Times, that the affair ended in early 1988 after his swift promotion to the Cabinet as chief secretary to the Treasury. The newspaper says that Mr Major has confirmed her revelations in a statement. He is reported as saying that his...