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Michael Denzil Xavier Portillo FRSGS (/ p ɔːr ˈ t ɪ l oʊ / por-TIL-oh; [a] born 26 May 1953) [1] is a British journalist, broadcaster, and former Conservative Party politician. His broadcast series include railway documentaries such as Great British Railway Journeys and Great Continental Railway Journeys.
Portillo was selected as Conservative candidate but faced demonstrations organised by gay rights group OutRage! and its principal campaigner Peter Tatchell who protested against his vote for an unequal age of consent for gay and straight sex, and support for the ban on homosexuality in the UK armed forces while Secretary of State for Defence ...
Michael Howard: Preceded by: David Willetts: Succeeded by: Philip Hammond: Member of Parliament for Kensington Kensington and Chelsea (2005–2010) In office 5 May 2005 – 30 March 2015: Preceded by: Michael Portillo: Succeeded by: Victoria Borwick: Member of Parliament for Edinburgh Pentlands; In office 28 February 1974 – 8 April 1997 ...
Michael Portillo, after whom the moment is named. The Portillo moment was the declaration of the result for the Enfield Southgate constituency in the 1997 United Kingdom general election, at 3:01 a.m. on 2 May 1997. The Labour Party candidate, Stephen Twigg, defeated the sitting MP, Conservative cabinet minister Michael Portillo. The result was ...
The most profound it gets is during an episode all about longevity when Michael suggests that his son would be better off just spending time with his child rather than messing around with ...
The pair tied the knot in May 1994 when Jackson was 35 and Presley was 25 — just weeks after her divorce from Keough — and they were married for more than two years before finalizing their ...
Married at Second Sight -- hopefully.After starting season 17 by making history as the first groom to be left at the altar, Michael is giving blind love another shot on Married at Fist Sight. ET ...
In Austria's third-largest city – Linz, Michael Portillo take the tram up to Pöstlingberg. Back in Linz, he samples the city's famous Linz cake and learns more of Adolf Hitler's connection with Linz. After delving into the history of Czechoslovakia's first president, Tomáš Masaryk, Portillo travels to České Budějovice, Czech