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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 .
There was a poll in The Observer newspaper on the weekend before the election which showed that Portillo held only a three-point lead in his hitherto safe seat. [1] He had been widely expected to contest the Conservative leadership after the general election, which without a Commons seat he would be unable to do.
Suffering from both a reduction in popular support and vote splitting with Reform UK candidate Toby McKenzie and independent James Bagge, Truss lost her seat with a 43.7% fall in the Conservative vote share, despite having won 69% of the vote at the previous election; The Spectator labelled the result the "Portillo moment" of the year. [2]
An anticipated Labour landslide victory puts several Conservative Cabinet ministers at risk of losing their seats.
Paris Hilton is clarifying a misconception from her time on The Simple Life. "That was just me pretending to be the character. I knew what it was," Hilton, 43, now says. "We wanted it to be ...
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.
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Sionk 18:14, 9 July 2024 (UTC).. Not a review but more of a comment, but given how international readers may not know what a Portillo moment is, it might be better to propose a hook about how Truss was the first former prime minister in about 90 years to lose her seat, as I think that's a more impressive and eyecatching fact.