Article: Widdecombe savages Portillo and 'backbiters'.

Article: Thatcher and Blair get it - so why don't Tory MPs? ...
The Sunday Telegraph London;  July 15, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... her backing for Mr Portillo is the endorsement ... be answered when Tory MPs hold their final ... flashing cameras, Tory MPs have mistaken the ... votes towards Mr Portillo, rather than the ... unambiguous signal Tory MPs will send to activists ...

Article: Mr Portillo must now call off his henchmen and put the ...
The Independent - London;  April 20, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... my oracle. "Why doesn't Portillo give Hague a chance? What ... boots - again. It'll be Portillo's fault if we don't do ... But even if a majority of Tory MPs, returning in a demoralised ... who will unite under a "stop Portillo" banner to offer party workers ...

Article: Heseltine calls on Tory MPs to revolt against ...
The Independent - London;  December 9, 2002 ;     700+ words ...MICHAEL HESELTINE calls on Tory MPs today to oust Iain Duncan Smith ... leadership bid by making Michael Portillo his deputy. He urges Tory MPs to defy the party's 350 ... that this would bring Michael Portillo back into the front line ...

Article: Leadership campaigns are waiting on the Web POLITICAL MEDIA The ...
The Independent - London;  April 20, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... Hague after the election. Mr Portillo and Miss Widdecombe are the ... seized on the fact that Mr Portillo has overhauled his site in ... public debate". But suspicious Tory MPs claim that the site is tailor ... the country. Crucially, Mr Portillo's website sets out his personal ...

Article: Portillo `appalled' by Tory MPs' race ...
The Independent - London;  April 2, 2001 ;     496 words ...MICHAEL PORTILLO underlined his more inclusive vision ... John Townend and Christopher Gill. Mr Portillo said the party "needs to move on" and ... leader for giving him "bad advice". Mr Portillo told BBC's Breakfast with Frost that ...

Article: Tory MPs have accepted that their party is staring ...
The Independent - London;  July 6, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... rather than politicking. Tory MPs are - literally - punch ... receptions look like this: Portillo 38; Duncan Smith 23 ... in the words of Mr Portillo, the Tory party could ... attractions. But although Tory MPs may not yet have felt ... varying degrees. Mr Portillo re

Article: A right hook to KO Ken?; As Tory MPs cast their ...
The Daily Mail (London, England);  July 10, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... few days ago to 7-2. Mr Portillo, meanwhile, was working flat ... Comment - Page TEN MICHAEL PORTILLO STILL the bookies' favourite ... race, Michael Denzil Xavier Portillo claims to have been transformed ... party 'rethink' involving all Tory MPs to get the party out of its ...