The group has disparate views of social policy: Thatcher herself was socially conservative and a practising Methodist but the free-market wing in the Conservative Party harbour a range of social opinions from the civil libertarian views of Michael Portillo, Daniel Hannan, Douglas Carswell and David Davis to the traditional conservatism of William Hague.

Portillo retired from the Commons at the 2005 general election, and has since pursued his media interests, presenting a wide range of television and radio programmes.

Portillo has been married to Carolyn Eadie since 1982.

" Portillo has since admitted that he knew he had lost his seat by the time of the interview:

The 1997 loss, symbolising the loss of the election by the Conservative Party, has been referred to as " the Portillo moment ", and in the cliché " Were you up for Portillo?

From 2002 onwards, Portillo has developed an active career in media, both as a commentator on public affairs and as a writer and / or presenter of TV and radio documentaries.

Since 2003, Portillo has appeared in the BBC weekly political discussion programme This Week with Andrew Neil and, until September 2010, Labour MP Diane Abbott.

Portillo has known Abbott for many years: they both attended schools in the London Borough of Harrow, Portillo and Abbott were in a joint school production of Romeo and Juliet, though not in the title roles.

She played Lady Macduff to his Macduff The chemistry between Portillo and Abbott has been credited with ensuring the programme's popularity.

Since 2002, he has presented his own discussion series, " Dinner with Portillo ", on BBC Four, in which political and social questions are explored by Portillo and his seven guests, over a four-course meal.

Portillo has written a regular column for The Sunday Times, contributes to other journals ( he was a theatre critic for the New Statesman until May 2006 ), and is a regular radio broadcaster in the UK.

Since 1998, Portillo has been a Commissioner of the International Commission on Missing Persons ( ICMP ).

Starting 14 October 2010, Clarke has occasionally joined Michael Portillo on the sofa at This Week as the guest political pundit following the departure of Diane Abbott to take up her post as Shadow Minister for Public Health.

He has left the payment in a locker at the L. A. airport, but the Colombian sent to receive the money, Yayo Portillo ( Catlett keeps calling him Yahoo ), doesn't feel safe unlocking the locker with so many DEA agents staked out nearby.

After being overlooked to present the BBC's flagship news programme Newsnight, Neil has presented This Week with ex-Conservative minister Michael Portillo, and Labour MP for Hackney Diane Abbott.

He has also written a sympathetic biography of Michael Portillo and a critical study of the Northern Ireland peace process, The Price of Peace, for which he won the Charles Douglas-Home Prize.

A few months later, along with the News Show, he started a new program “ América Habla con Raul Peimbert ” a one-on one interview show that has allowed him to be one of the few Hispanic journalists that has interviewed more than 40 Latin American presidents, among them: Felipe Calderon Hinojosa ( Mexico ), Vicente Fox Quezada ( México ), Carlos Salinas de Gortari ( México ), Ernesto Zedillo ( México ), Carlos Saúl Menem ( Argentina ), Alberto Fujimori ( Perú ), César Gaviria ( Colombia ), Ernesto Samper ( Colombia ), Eduardo Frei ( Chile ), Ernesto Pérez Balladares ( Panamá ), Armando Calderón Sol ( El Salvador ), Rafael Caldera ( Venezuela ), Jaime Paz Zamora ( Bolivia ), Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada ( Bolivia ), Juan Carlos Wasmosy ( Paraguay ), Carlos Roberto Reina ( Honduras ), José López Portillo ( México ), Miguel De la Madrid ( México ), Joaquín Balaguer ( República Dominicana ), Antonio Saca ( El Salvador ), Daniel Ortega ( Nicaragua ), Hugo Chávez ( Venezuela ), Leonel Fernadez ( República Dominicana ), William Clinton ( USA ).

" As municipal seat San Mateo Río Hondo has governing jurisdiction over the following communities: Barranca Grande, El Campanario, El Cuachepil, El Encino, El Esfuerzo, El Manzanal, El Naranjal, El Progreso, El Tavel, Falda de Portillo, Horno de Cal, Jalatengo, La Concepción, La Doncella, La Floreña, La Victoria, Las Nubes, Las Tinas, Loma San Marcial, Miramar, Piedra Gentil, Pinabete ( Llano de Pinabete ), Ranchería Yogoló ( Piedra Manchada ), Rancho Cañas, Rancho Cerezales, Rancho Madroño ( Rancho el Capulín ), Rancho Nuevo, Río Cuapinol, Río Grande, Río Molino, Río Pacífico, San Antonio, San Felipe ( Manzanillo ), San Ildefonso Ozolotepec, San José del Pacífico, San Melchor, San Pablo, Tres Cruces, Yogoló, and Zapotitlán.

He presented a Radio 4 programme, The Wikipedia Story, about Wikipedia and other encyclopedias, which featured Anderson making this correcting edit to Wikipedia's article on the UK politician Michael Portillo.

The documentary How To Kill A Human Being, in the Horizon series, featured Portillo carrying out a survey of capital punishment methods ( including undertaking some near death experiences himself ) in an attempt to find an ' acceptable ' form.

" Major later said that he had picked the number three from the air and that he was referring to " former ministers who had left the government and begun to create havoc with their anti-European activities ", but many journalists suggested that the three were Peter Lilley, Michael Portillo and Michael Howard, three of the more prominent " Eurosceptics " within his Cabinet.

* 1982 The nationalization of the Mexican banking system made by President José López Portillo, later in the Carlos Salinas de Gortari presidency ( 1988 – 1994 ) a large number of banks were privatized.

Interest was generated when it was reported that both Heseltine and Portillo had had a large number of telephone lines installed at offices, widely presumed ( and, in Portillo's case, correctly ) to be a preparation for a second round bid.

An early brush with fame came in 1961 at the age of 8, when Portillo starred in a television advertisement for Ribena, a blackcurrant cordial drink.

* Veronica Portillo, television personality on MTV Road Rules, Semester at Sea, Real World / Road Rules Challenge

However, 179 other Conservative MPs were defeated, including present and former Cabinet ministers such as Norman Lamont, Sir Malcolm Rifkind and Michael Portillo.

After the election, Portillo renewed his attachment to Kerr McGee but also undertook substantial media work including programmes for the BBC and Channel 4.

The same August President Portillo admitted involvement of the Guatemalan government in human rights abuses over the previous 20 years, including for two massacres that took place during Ríos Montt's presidency.

Portillo also promised to continue the peace process, appoint a civilian defense minister, reform the armed forces, replace the military presidential security service with a civilian one, and strengthen protection of human rights.

Nava said: " We were filming in Mexico during the end of the López Portillo presidency, one of the last of the old-fashioned caciques to rule Mexico.

He showed an unexpectedly warm and perceptive 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 ).

Lang lost his seat in the 1997 general election, one of seven Cabinet members to do so ( the others being Malcolm Rifkind, Michael Portillo, Michael Forsyth, Roger Freeman, William Waldegrave and Tony Newton ).

During one year ( shortly after his arrival at the Real Madrid senior setup ), Portillo played ten times for Spain U-21's, scoring five goals.

Michael Portillo predicted that Gove will one day lead the Conservative party.

They also grabbed headlines by naming one of their songs " Bring Me The Head of Michael Portillo ".

It was one of the safest Conservative seats in the United Kingdom, and since its creation in 1997 became a prestigious seat, with MP Alan Clark, the former Defence Secretary Michael Portillo and the former Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rifkind all holding the seat for the Conservatives.

In the runoff on December 26, Alfonso Portillo ( FRG ) won 68 % of the vote to 32 % for Óscar Berger ( PAN ).

However, Presidents Álvaro Arzú and his successors Alfonso Portillo, Óscar Berger and Álvaro Colom, have used a constitutional clause to order the army on a temporary basis to support the police in response to a nationwide wave of violent crime product of the Mexican criminal organizations going across the north-west region.

Until her appointment as a shadow minister in October 2010, Abbott appeared alongside former Conservative politician and media personality Michael Portillo on the BBC's weekly politics digest This Week.

Echeverría designated José López Portillo, his secretary of Finance, as his successor for the term 1976-82, hoping that the new administration would have a tighter control on inflation and to preserve political unity.

It is held by some that, in the 1997 General Election, the incumbent Member of Parliament Michael Portillo lost his seat in part due to the proposal to build a McDonald's restaurant in Green Lanes on the site of the former Century House Conservative club, behind residences in Elm Park Road.

Filmed in 2009 but first broadcast 4 January 2010, Portillo presented Great British Railway Journeys in which he explored, with the aid of George Bradshaw's 1840 railway guidebook, how the railways had a profound influence on the social, economic and political history of Britain.

* http :// www. ushmm. org / museum / exhibit / focus / antisemitism / voices / transcript /? content = 20100701 " Voices on Antisemitism " Interview with Diego Portillo Mazal

" He also spent long periods in New York City and on the Mediterranean, until President José López Portillo issued a decree nationalising Mexico's banking system and greatly devaluing its currency overnight.

He was the brother of late Mexican novelist Margarita López Portillo who died on May 8, 2006 of natural causes.

On the day of his investiture Portillo said that Guatemala was " on the edge of collapse ", and promised a thorough government investigation into corruption.

However, the FRG lost to Óscar Berger's GANA party, who was sworn in to replace Portillo on 14 January 2004.

When his political immunity was revoked on 19 February 2004, Portillo immediately fled to Mexico.

Portillo and his associates were absolved of all embezzlement charges on May 9, 2011 by a Guatemalan court that determined that prosecutors, Guatemala's Public Ministry, did not present sufficient evidence to convict the former president.

The Palacio Legislativo de San Lázaro was constructed on the former site of the San Lázaro Railroad Station by José López Portillo in the 1970s, opened in 1981.

While in parliament, he served on the Education Select Committee and was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Michael Portillo.