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.

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 BBC Two ( 2002 ), and a programme on Spanish wildlife for BBC Two's The Natural World series ( 2006 )-Portillo is a fluent Spanish speaker.

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.

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.

Anderson was educated at Stanburn Primary School and Harrow County School for Boys in London, where his group of friends included Geoffrey Perkins and Michael Portillo.

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

Portillo was criticized during the campaign for his relationship with the FRG's chairman, former president Ríos Montt.

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.

In 2002 she began hosting a celebrity gossip show, Escandalo TV along Marisa del Portillo, Felipe Viel and Lilia Luciano for TeleFutura.

Hamilton supported Michael Portillo and when Portillo did not contest the leadership, he voted for John Redwood.

As Defence Secretary, Portillo pressed for a purist Thatcherite course of " clear blue water ", separating the policies of the Conservatives from Labour.

Standing for the leadership of the party in 2001, Portillo came a narrow third place behind Iain Duncan Smith and Kenneth Clarke.

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.

Portillo returned to advisory work for the government and in December 1984 he stood for and won the Enfield Southgate by-election following the murder of the incumbent, Sir Anthony Berry, in the bombing by the IRA of the Grand Hotel in Brighton.

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

On 3 February Portillo stood opposite the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, in the House of Commons for the first time in his new role.

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 ).

On 4 July 2011 it was announced that Portillo will chair a new £ 55m Arts Endowment Fund, to be supported by the Arts Council, the Heritage Lottery Fund and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

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.

In an interview with The Times given in the summer of 1999, Portillo admitted that " I had some homosexual experiences as a young person.

* KANDELL, J. José López Portillo, Ex-President of Mexico, Dies at 83 ( subscription needed ), New York Times February 19, 2004 – article by same author reproduced here

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.

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

Abbott and Portillo have known each other since school, when they appeared in joint school productions of Romeo and Juliet ( although not in the title roles ), and of Macbeth as Lady Macduff and Macduff respectively.

As he was then a Cabinet Minister, Michael Portillo's constituency of Enfield Southgate was believed to be a safe seat but opinion polls showed the Labour candidate Stephen Twigg steadily gaining support, which may have prompted undecided voters or supporters of other parties to support Twigg in order to remove Portillo.

Portillo was chosen for the group ; the girls picked the name " Boquitas Pintadas " because it sounded very different from the names of other typical teenage bands of the era, many of which tried to copy Menudo with their name.

Portillo carried all 22 departments and Guatemala City, which was considered the PAN's stronghold.

" 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.

Segovia's first wife was Adelaida Portillo ( marriage in 1918 ).

* Mauricio González de la Garza, Mexican writer, journalist and composer took refuge in Falfurrias following the publication of his book " Última Llamada ", where he was forced into exile after threats and persecutions suffered under the presidency of José López Portillo.

His death in office triggered a by-election in Enfield Southgate, which was won by Michael Portillo.

It was soon backed by International Ski Federation ( FIS ) president Marc Hodler during the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1966 at Portillo, Chile, and became an official FIS event in the spring of 1967 after the FIS Congress at Beirut, Lebanon.

Portillo was first elected to the House of Commons in a by-election in 1984 ; a strong admirer of Margaret Thatcher, and a Eurosceptic, Portillo served as a junior minister under both Thatcher and John Major, before entering the cabinet in 1992.

Returning to the Commons through a by-election in Kensington and Chelsea in 1999, Portillo rejoined the front bench as Shadow Chancellor, although his relationship with Conservative Leader William Hague was strained.

His father was an exiled Spanish republican, Luis Gabriel Portillo ( 1907 – 1993 ).

Commentators suggested this was an example of Portillo taking the initiative in terms of Conservative Party policy and was the first step towards increasing acrimony between Hague and his Shadow Chancellor.

When Duncan Smith was elected leader, Portillo returned to the backbenches.

Later, whilst still at school, Portillo cast Abbott in a film version of Macbeth, but the film was never completed.

Portillo was the Chairman of the committee choosing the 2008 Man Booker Prize.

After his time at Oxford, Perkins joined the Ocean Transport and Trading Company "( in the same intake as his confrère Portillo ), Perkins was put to work studying waste timber in Liverpool.

The event was commemorated by the Portillo de la Traición ( Treason Gate ).

Alfonso Portillo was named to replace him as the FRG candidate, and narrowly lost.