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ConservativeHome's ToryDiary (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Michael Portillo is usually to be found sitting alongside Andrew Neil on the This Week sofa, but this weekend the former Cabinet Minister-turned-broadcaster is interviewed by him for the BBC's HardStraight Talk programme. He expresses surprise - "I'm absolutely astonished" - at how much policy detail has already been announced, by George Osborne in his conference speech, for...
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INSPIRATION FM RADIO/ Jerry's blog (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Michael Portillo Sun 29 Nov Venue: Derngate Controversial former MP for Kensington and Chelsea and currently successful TV regular and columnist Michael Portillo shares his experiences and his many fascinating stories, and takes audience questions. 7.30pm Tickets £18.50 £16 Share on Facebook Genre: Spoken Word
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Stop.Look.Listen. (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Hi all, Bit of a funny one this, but it seems a company called the Charities Aid Foundation liked our Stop.Look.Listen. logo so much that they decided to hijack it and use it as branding for a campaign and conference chaired by Michael Portillo! You can see the pictures here: http://bit.ly/5kFkOE Apparently over 200 companies attended the conference, so at least it has feasibly raised...
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TalkCarswell.com (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
... choice if we are to balance the country’s books. Reinforcing such conventional wisdom is Michael Portillo, quoted as saying that: "In 1979, we faced a big public spending problem … but [Mrs Thatcher] didn’t cut public spending. I was Chief Secretary between ’92 and ’94 – big public spending problem – I was trying to cut public spending;...
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politicalbetting.com (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Jack W asks: Were you up for Portillo ? It was perhaps the most iconic moment of the 1997 general election as Michael Portillo was defeated at Enfield Southgate by the eyebrow raising fresh faced Stephen Twigg. It was also one of the Conservative defeats that locked in the Labour landslide. A defeat that [...]
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Denverstrope (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
... EU President, represents the end of the road for EU federalism, the reality remains that, as Michael Portillo said yesterday on This Week to slimy Europhile Chris Huhne, the Eurozone is "not a democratic space". As Portillo went on, it is therefore "impossible to be anything other than Eurosceptic" since, I assume he meant, that that half billion people,...
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ConservativeHome's ToryDiary (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
... our deficit was cured by transferring spending from Ottawa to the provinces, don't you?' I didn't. Michael Portillo used an interview this weekend to say that spending cuts were too tricky. He clearly doesn't get the gravity of Britain's situation. On Thursday Benedict Brogan did get the measure of things: "It is becoming increasingly apparent that nothing short of a national restoration...
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Obesity and the Salt Connection (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
... to this ghastly programme any more. The views expressed by the two women nearly always appal me. Michael Portillo seems to be the most human member of the panel.)
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Newly free from his duties as poet laureate, the poet will lead deliberations to find 2010's best novel Former poet laureate Andrew Motion will chair the judging panel for next year's Man Booker prize, following an eclectic roster of former chairs including Michael Portillo, PD James and Douglas Hurd. Philip Larkin, the subject of a prize-winning authorised biography by Motion, held...
