Michael Portillo
✓ Source-basedfallingBritish journalist, broadcaster, and former politician (born 1953)
Michael Denzil Xavier Portillo is a British journalist, broadcaster, and retired politician. His broadcast series include railway documentaries such as Great British Railway Journeys and Great Continental Railway Journeys.
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Portillo (centre) with Admiral Sir Peter Abbott and US Defence Secretary William J. Perry aboard HMS Illustrious in 1996
Portillo (left) being interviewed by Nick Robinson in 2001
Filming at Taunton railway station, in trademark exotic colours, 2017
Portillo in 2017
Class 66 66719 Michael Portillo locomotive nameplate, named at Greatest Gathering in Derby (2025)In their own words 8
If any of you have got an A-level it is because you have worked to get it. Go to any other country and when you have got an A-level, you have bought it.
Speech to Conservative students at Southampton University, quoted in Philip Webster and Jonathan Prynn, 'Portillo says sorry after ‘cheats’
A [single currency] would mean giving up the government of the UK. No British government can give up the government of the UK. That's impossible.
Statement (1 May 1994), quoted in 'Speaking of a single currency...', The Times (10 February 1995), p. 8
The State has slipped into an attitude of studied amorality... It is time to return to plain speaking and traditional values...
Clear Blue Water, pamphlet published by Conservative Way Forward, quoted in William Rees-Mogg, 'Give us something to believe', The Times
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About this person
Michael Denzil Xavier Portillo is a British journalist, broadcaster, and retired politician. His broadcast series include railway documentaries such as Great British Railway Journeys and Great Continental Railway Journeys. A former member of the Conservative Party, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Enfield Southgate from 1984 to 1997 and Kensington and Chelsea from 1999 to 2005, holding a number of ministerial and Cabinet positions.
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