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	Michael Portillo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Portillo's apparent equivocation at this time was later seized on by his opponents within the party as a mark of his indecisiveness.
		Portillo has featured in a number of television documentaries, including one on Richard Wagner (of whose music he is a notable fan), and two on Spain: Great Railway Journeys: From Granada to Salamanca for Channel 4 (2002), and a programme on Spanish wildlife for BBC Two's The Natural World series (2006).
		(Portillo is a fluent Spanish speaker.) He showed an unsuspected side of his nature when he took over for one week the life, family and income of a single mother living on benefits in Wallasey ("When Michael Portillo became a Single Mum" (2003)).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Michael_Portillo (1221 words)

	Michael Portillo•The Official Website•Biography•
		Michael is a member of the International Commission on Missing Persons in the former Yugoslavia (which organises the identification of massacre victims) under the chairmanship of Jim Kimsey, and sat on of the Board of BAE Systems plc from 2002 to 2006.
		Michael returned to politics as a special adviser to the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Nigel Lawson) and in December 1984 won the by-election in Enfield Southgate, caused by the murder of Sir Anthony Berry MP in the Brighton bombing.
		Michael was re-elected to Parliament in a by-election in Kensington and Chelsea in November 1999 and was Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer February 2000 - September 2001.
	www.michaelportillo.co.uk /profile.htm (640 words)

	Michael Gove - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Michael Andrew Gove (born August 26, 1967, Edinburgh) is a British politician, journalist and author.
		Michael Portillo has predicted that Gove will be leader of the Conservative party, although he has only very recently won a seat at Westminster.
		When Cameron was elected as the leader of the party in December 2005, Gove was appointed as the party's housing spokesman in the team shadowing the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Michael_Gove (677 words)

	NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Michael Portillo
		Portillo was urged by many to stand himself against Major, and some enbarrassment was incurred when it transpired that a supporter had set up a potential campaign HQ with banks of telephone lines.
		Michael Howard, the former Home Secretary, who stood in the 1997 leadership election had subsequently withdrawn from frontline politics and was not at this stage widely considered, though he would subsequently make a comeback as Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, then Leader from 2003.
		Portillo was the first candidate to declare and many commentators saw the contest as coming down to whether or not the party agreed with him, since his platform proved deeply controversial in some quarters.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Michael-Portillo (4038 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Programmes \| Breakfast with Frost \| Tory succession (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Michael, and I think he's absolutely right on this, has decided that he has to do it as the leader, he has to be elected in the way that he would intend to run the party with a free hand, and he decides what jobs we all get.
		MICHAEL PORTILLO: Well I've been asked that a number of times and I just think it would be presumptuous even to answer the question because I've no reason to think that he would approach me. I mean I've not been part of his team, he doesn't owe me anything at all.
		MICHAEL PORTILLO: Well in that sense clearly, I think the great thing here is that everybody and that includes Ken and me and many other people with some stature in the party, they're all going to be on Michael's team in that broader sense.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/programmes/breakfast_with_frost/3234947.stm (2078 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Reviews \| Your views: Portillo as a single mum
		The Michael Portillo programme was a blatent publicity stunt which not only patronised the single mum (1 week is not testing enough - try a year Michael), but also showed how a potential leader of a major party (and possibly prime minister) was comprehensively manipulated by an 11 year old girl.
		Portillo struggled as a parent especially with the younger children, though perhaps this is unsurprising with someone with no childcare experience.
		Michael Portillo is no longer one of the faceless politicians and should run for the leadership.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/reviews/3195040.stm (2981 words)

	BBC - BBC Four - Michael Portillo Live Chat
		Michael Portillo: It's funny you ask because there's about to be a new TV show called Guess Who's Coming to Dinner and the theme is that a guest comes along and tells you who they'd have to their dinner party, living or dead.
		Michael Portillo: I think it stands a chance but I take the point that most of the publicity you hear about farming is negative.
		Michael Portillo: I think the system is in a complete mess and has become a sort of fraud because it's clear the government can't cope with the numbers who are claiming asylum, and it's in no real position to judge whether those claims are genuine or not.
	www.bbc.co.uk /bbcfour/features/portillo-chat.shtml (2790 words)

	Correspondents Report - Fresh round of trouble for UK conservatives
		MICHAEL DODD: Michael Portillo was one of Margaret Thatcher's favourite ministers and was long seen as the natural heir to the Thatcher crown, especially when he was Defence Secretary and made swashbuckling speeches like this:
		MICHAEL DODD: Well, that was a speech for which Michael Portillo became famous, but he later came to regret his hard right, gung-ho style.
		MICHAEL DODD: The other man left standing in the contest is the more traditional figure of Iain Duncan Smith, a little known former army Captain who detractors regard as a balder, older and less colourful version of the hapless William Hague.
	www.abc.net.au /correspondents/s333305.htm (937 words)

	Michael Portillo in Kensington
		Michael Portillo's chances of becoming leader of the Conservatives are much slimmer after two sets of damaging accusations were leveled at him.
		Kensington & Chelsea MP Michael Portillo is the first person to announce their intention to stand for Tory leadership.
		Kensington & Chelsea MP Michael Portillo remains for many the strongest candidate, but whoever becomes leader they face a daunting task to recover the party from their worst result in living memory.
	www.mykensington.co.uk /kensington/celebs-portillo.htm (466 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Politics \| Special Reports \| Portillo bids politics farewell
		Michael Portillo came into elective politics with a bang and went out with barely a wimper.
		When Portillo ran for the leadership in 2001 it was with Lord Tebbit championing Iain Duncan Smith as having a "normal" family, careless of the painful fact that Mrs Portillo, a cancer survivor, cannot have children.
		IDS beat Portillo among MPs by one vote and went on to beat Ken Clarke in the country.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /conservatives/story/0,9061,1080496,00.html (1357 words)

	Michael Heseltine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Michael Ray Dibdin Heseltine, Baron Heseltine, CH, PC (born 21 March 1933) is a British Conservative politician and businessman.
		In December 2002 Heseltine controversially called for Iain Duncan Smith to be replaced as leader of the Conservatives by the "dream-ticket" of Kenneth Clarke as leader and Michael Portillo as deputy.
		He is now a keen gardener and his large estate was featured in a one off documentary on BBC Two in December 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Michael_Heseltine (1234 words)

	Michael Portillo - The London Speaker Bureau
		Michael Portilloâs political career has twice been defined by dramatic changes in fortune.
		Mr Portillo became a member of John Major's Cabinet, most notably as Secretary of State for Defence; his hardline attitude was reflected in a gung-ho conference speech about the SAS.
		Following his return to the Commons in a 1999 by-election, the re-invented Mr Portillo was immediately made shadow chancellor by William Hague, where he began to articulate a more caring, more socially responsible Conservatism.
	www.londonspeakerbureau.co.uk /speakers/viewSpeaker.aspx?speakerid=136 (447 words)

	Knitting Circle Michael Portillo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Michael Portillo is not listed here as a gay man, but because his revelation that he had had 'homosexual experiences' in his youth could have had important political consequences.
		Michael Portillo stood down as an MP at the general election held on 5th.
		Mr Portillo is a close friend of the former Tory MP Michael Brown, who resigned as a Tory whip over a homosexual controversy.
	myweb.lsbu.ac.uk /~stafflag/michaelportillo.html (7626 words)

	Portillo's hopes hit by angry Thatcher denial [Free Republic]
		MICHAEL PORTILLO'S campaign for the Tory leadership was hit by fresh controversy last night after a "furious" Lady Thatcher denied backing him rather than Iain Duncan Smith.
		The Portillo camp was forced on the defensive by the clash with Lady Thatcher and the screening of a secret video diary prepared by Amanda Platell, William Hague's former press chief, which claimed that the shadow chancellor's aides undermined Mr Hague during the election campaign.
		The Portillo, Clarke and Duncan Smith camps all acknowledged last night that the result of the contest was too close to forecast.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3b5246d86f81.htm (848 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Today's issues \| Will the real Michael Portillo please stand up?
		This was Michael Portillo's first speech to the Conservative party conference as a front-bencher for four years.
		Portillo is passionately tolerant and inclusive and his body language, reinforced with clenched fists, shows that he is willing to stand up for his beliefs in today's Tory party.
		Portillo remains fiercely loyal to Hague and the two are close.
	www.guardian.co.uk /today/article/0,6729,376928,00.html (560 words)

	Matt & Andrej Koymasky - Famous GLTB - Michael Portillo
		Born in London, Michael Portillo is not listed here as a gay man, but because his revelation that he had had 'homosexual experiences' in his youth could have had important political consequences.
		Apparently Michael Portillo himself was the one who brought up the issue of his sexuality and he claimed that the matter would blow over because he had been honest about it.
		After the results were known Michael Portillo said that he would be leaving frontline politics for good and that he would not serve on the front bench 'ever again'.
	andrejkoymasky.com /liv/fam/biop3/port07.html (1688 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Politics \| Aristotle \| Michael Portillo
		Mr Portillo's voyage of rediscovery was all the more wondrous since everyone was able to witness the shock that pushed him into the political abyss.
		Mr Portillo left the Grand Hotel an hour before the bomb exploded and was then selected from more than 200 aspirants for the byelection caused by the death of Southgate MP, Sir Anthony Berry, who was killed by the bomb.
		Mr Portillo excluded British Rail from his effort to build the Channel tunnel with private funds and pushed local authorities to dispose of bus enterprises.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /profiles/story/0,9396,462096,00.html (832 words)

	Scotland on Sunday - Opinion - Look after the talent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		THE departure of Michael Portillo from British politics is a sad moment for the Conservative party.
		So the decision by Michael Portillo to leave the narrow, winding road of national politics and embrace the wide and easy path of the broadcasting media raises some burning issues.
		Michael Portillo is one of those who enjoyed the fruits of his legacy.
	www.scotlandonsunday.com /opinion.cfm?id=1236062003 (1164 words)

	101 Uses for Michael Portillo
		If you dip Michael Portillo into a bath of liquid nitrogen, being careful to use gloves, and then drop him from the roof, he will shatter into seven thousand pieces all over the pavement in a most amusing fashion.
		Michael has a handy changeable bit on the top of his head which copes with both normal slot-head screws and Philips/Pozidrive.
		Michael is surprisingly intelligent and could be trained, with some effort, to do simple tasks like yard sweeping and even basic lavatory cleaning.
	www.splange.freeserve.co.uk /portillo.html (1648 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Politics \| Portillo to stand down as MP
		Mr Portillo has already built up a portfolio of media work and recently spent a week as a single mother for a TV documentary.
		Shireen Ritchie, chairman of the Kensington and Chelsea Conservative Association, said Mr Portillo had told her he was standing down in a letter on Thursday.
		She said: "Michael has been open with me and I am aware that he has been giving serious thought to his future for some time...
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/3251271.stm (690 words)

	Telegraph \| News
		MICHAEL PORTILLO stormed back into the political front line yesterday, staking his claim as a future Tory leader with a speech urging his party to present a more caring image.
		It was in marked contrast to his strident party conference addresses before the last election, particularly a highly controversial one as Defence Secretary in 1995, when he was accused of hijacking the SAS's Who Dares Wins motto for party political advantage.
		Mr Portillo, who returned to Parliament nearly a year ago at a by-election in Kensington and Chelsea, said his period out of Parliament had given him the chance to "connect with the Britain of today".
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2000/10/04/ncon104.xml (668 words)

	Michael Portillo: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Michael Denzil Xavier Portillo (born May 26, EHandler: no quick summary.
		Portillo retained the Enfield Southgate seat[Click link for more facts about this topic] until 1997.
		Duncan smith uses the name iain duncan smith and is commonly referred to as ids....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/mi/michael_portillo.htm (1585 words)

	Democratic Underground Forums - Michael Portillo: For a time I believed him (Re. Blair) Must Read!
		Portillo shifted to the left, and some say he is still shifting in that direction to this day.
		He rejected many facets of Thatcherism which caused a bewildered Lady T to support Iain Duncan Smith for the Tory leadership and to say that she believed "Michael to be confused." Whispers about gay experiences in his past (which Portillo admitted to) probably sealed his fate with the dinosaurs in the parliamentary Tory party.
		Portillo is one of the few 'Big Beasts' remaining in the increasingly pathetic and sparse Tory jungle, and, with the right-wing polishing their guns as we speak, he is an endangered species.
	www.democraticunderground.com /duforum/DCForumID38/4906.html (1630 words)

	Michael Portillo Named to Kerr-McGee Board of Directors \| Kerr-McGee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Portillo has more than 30 years experience as a statesman and energy advisor.
		Portillo was admitted to the Privy Council in 1992.
		Portillo is a member of the board of directors of BAE Systems plc.
	www.kerr-mcgee.com /media/news/archive/news2006/news_20060201.htm (343 words)

	Michael Portillo \| Business speakers \| Celebrity speakers \| Speakers UK
		ducated at Harrow and Peterhouse, Cambridge, Michael Portillo’s links with the Conservative Party began in 1976 when he joined their Research Department before winning his seat in the House of Commons in 1984.
		Since he has held many of the most senior positions in Government and as Secretary of State for Defence, Michael Portillo was heavily involved in the former Yugoslavia crisis and made his mark on the international negotiating scene.
		Michael Portillo is an excellent keynote or after dinner speaker and amongst his topics are Global Security, Employment, Globalisation and Conflict Resolution.
	www.speakers-uk.com /profile.phtml?id=296&act_id=1&sid=81 (172 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Politics \| Aristotle \| Michael Portillo
		Tory delegates at the 2000 conference should have been provided with a couch for shadow chancellor Michael Portillo's voyage around his psyche.
		Mr Portillo himself did not say whether he had tried cannabis but he has admitted to trying homosexuality in his university years.
		Mr Portillo's need for subtlety must be frustrating because his party has moved into the far-right positions he abandoned after his 1997 election defeat.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /profiles/story/0,9396,-4231,00.html (832 words)

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