biography
| name: |
Portillo, Michael (Denzil Xavier)
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pronunciation:
[paw(r)tiloh]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1953– )
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| biography:
| British Conservative statesman. He studied at Cambridge, and became an MP in 1984. After several appointments as a special adviser to government departments, he became minister of state for transport (1988–90) and the environment (1990–2), chief secretary for the Treasury (1992–4), secretary of state for employment (1994–5), and defence secretary (1995–7). He lost his seat in the 1997 general election, but won a by-election in Kensington and Chelsea in 1999. He became shadow chancellor in 2000. Following his defeat in the Conservative leadership contest in 2001 he announced that he would leave front-line politics. |
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