Early Life
Currie was born in south Liverpool, England, to an Orthodox Jewish family and has identified herself as Jewish, although she has stated,: "I find religious mumbo jumbo hard to swallow in any faith." She went to the Liverpool Institute High School for Girls in Blackburne House, in the Canning area of Liverpool, where she was Head Girl and where her father had served as caretaker. She studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at St Anne's College, Oxford University where she was taught by Gabriele Taylor; subsequently, she gained a MA in economic history from the London School of Economics.
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