Tuesday's Quote of the Day
"I'd spend my money on Glastonbury or Duran Duran records" - 91Èȱ¬ 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 91Èȱ¬ 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.