If you'd asked the same question of the Tories even in April 1997, most people would have said Portillo...until he lost his seat.
Oh, I wish. Though I recently watched a clip from one of his shows on YouTube and he bashed my boy Iain Duncan Smith for taking the Tories too far to the right. What was that about? I thought Portillo was pretty right wing himself.
We are told he had a 'Damascus' conversion while working as a hospital porter. Oh and the whole gay thing at university. To be honest Portillo circa '95 was really just hot air. He was never as far to the right as he seemed. He just had to position himself that way, as did William Hague after him.
Translation: He did an opebo going to Thailand thing.
