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<p><font size="1" color="#000000">The Rt Hon Michael Portillo MP Michael
Portillo was born in North London in 1953. <br>
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His father, Luis, had come to Britain as a refugee at the end of
the Spanish Civil War, and his mother, Cora, was brought up in Fife.
She met Luis while she was an undergraduate at Oxford. </font></p>
<p><font size="1" color="#000000">Michael attended Harrow County Grammar
School for Boys, and Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he gained a first
class honours degree in History. </font></p>
<p><font size="1" color="#000000">He left Cambridge in 1975 and worked
for a shipping company for a year before moving, in 1976, to the
Research Department at Conservative Central Office. During the 1979
General Election he was responsible for briefing Margaret Thatcher
before her press conferences. </font><font size="1" color="#000000">After
this election he spent two years as Special Adviser to the Secretary
of State for Energy, followed, after a break, by two years with
Kerr McGee Oil UK. </font></p>
<p><font size="1" color="#000000">In 1982 Michael and Carolyn married.
They had first met when they were at school. Carolyn had become
a chartered accountant, and for the last fifteen years has been
a 'head-hunter' with Spencer Stuart Associates. </font></p>
<p><font size="1" color="#000000">In 1983 Michael returned to politics
as Special Adviser to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Nigel Lawson,
and in December 1984 was elected as the Member of Parliament for
Enfield Southgate in a by-election caused by the death of Sir Anthony
Berry MP in the Brighton bombing. </font></p>
<p><font size="1" color="#000000">He joined the Government as a Whip
in 1986, was Parliamentary under-secretary in the Department of
Health and Social Security from 1987-88, Minister of State for Transport
from 1988-90 and Minister of State for Local Government from 1990-92.
In 1992 he was appointed to the Cabinet as Chief Secretary to the
Treasury and was admitted to the Privy Council. In 1994 he became
Secretary of State for Employment and in 1995, Secretary of State
for Defence, a post he held until the 1997 General Election. </font></p>
<p><font size="1" color="#000000">Having represented Enfield Southgate
for thirteen years Michael was defeated at the 1997 General Election
and returned to Kerr McGee as an adviser. His other interests included
writing, speaking engagements and media work. He wrote about walking
as a pilgrim on the Santiago Way, and working as a hospital porter.
He had a weekly column in The Scotsman. He recorded a three part
series for Channel 4 about politics entitled Portillo's Progress,
a programme for BBC2's Great Railway Journeys series, which was
partly a biography of his father, and radio programmes on Wagner
and the Spanish Civil War. </font></p>
<p><font size="1" color="#000000">In November 1999 Michael was elected
as Member of Parliament for Kensington & Chelsea in a by-election
caused by the death of the Rt. Hon. Alan Clark. In February 2000
he joined the Opposition Front Bench Team as Shadow Chancellor.
</font></p>
<p><font size="1" color="#000000">Michael is a member of the International
Commission on Missing Persons in the former Yugoslavia (which organises
the identification of massacre victims) under the chairmanship of
Bob Dole, and he also serves on the advisory council of the Institute
for International Studies at Stanford, California. </font></p>
<p><font size="1" color="#000000">The Portillos love to travel in
search of open spaces, history, architecture and opera. </font></p>
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