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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Mexico increased its international presence during López Portillo: in addition to becoming the world's fourth oil exporter, Mexico restarted relations with the post Franco-Spain in 1977, allowed Pope John Paul II to visit Mexico, welcomed American president Jimmy Carter and broke relations with Somoza and supported the Sandinista National Liberation Front in its rebellion against the United States supported government.

Seen as a likely challenger to Major during the 1995 Conservative leadership election, Portillo ultimately stayed loyal.

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.

Morientes eventually fell down the pecking order of strikers to Guti and Javier Portillo and, during a February 2003 home win against Borussia Dortmund – 2 – 1 in the Champions League second group stage – was involved in a highly publicised spat with club manager Vicente del Bosque, with the player allegedly insulting the coach after being called to enter the pitch as a third replacement in the dying minutes.

On 9 August 2000, during ( failed ) negotiations between the state, the petitioners, and the Commission with a view to reaching a friendly settlement of this case and others, President Alfonso Portillo admitted the state's " institutional responsibility " for the massacre.

Thus, del Portillo, the Opus Dei prelate during the 1992 brouhaha regarding this, said that the attacks against the founder of Opus Dei are " a patent falsehood ," part of " a slanderous campaign.

During his campaign, López Portillo promised to defend the peso " like a dog ", López Portillo refused to devalue the currency saying " The president who devalues, devalues himself.

Many urged Portillo to run against Major, and he set up a potential campaign headquarters with banks of telephone lines.

In 2008 Portillo made a documentary as part of the BBC Headroom campaign ( which explores mental health issues ).

Portillo launched a campaign in favor of bringing morality into political life, to implacably fight corruption, to defend the indigenous population and the poor campesinos against the small, urban, white elite.

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

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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 ).