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Michael Portillo

Date of Birth:

26-May-1953

Nationality:

United Kingdom

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Michael Denzil Xavier Portillo is a British journalist, broadcaster and former politician known for presenting Great British Railway Journeys and Great Continental Railway Journeys.

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It's not as if I've ever been to prison or been close to going to prison. The closest I've got is knowing people who have been in jail - after all, I was a member of Parliament - and visiting them there during their sentence.
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I have Spanish ancestry and, indeed, speak the language, up to a point.
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You never quite know what you do in life that leaves a seed behind that grows into an oak tree.
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Music turns the world upside down.
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What's extraordinary about Cobra Mist, and so much of what went on at Orford, was that the public were completely oblivious to it.
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Travelling the railways of Europe with a century-old guidebook can be disconcerting: fares, food, and drink seem shockingly expensive compared with what they were; trains and paddle-steamers run to unexpected timetables (assuming they're still running at all); and not only states but whole empires have been wiped from the map.
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Personal responsibility matters.
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I do rather rejoice when people come up to talk to me about railways.
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I look back on my schooldays with a warm glow of nostalgia.
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Three letters send a chill down the spine of the enemy: SAS. Those letters spell out one clear message. Don't mess with Britain!
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I don't think I've got a thick skin, but I've not felt particularly humiliated by the things which people think I would have felt humiliated by, such as losing my seat in 1997 and not being elected leader in 2001. In the second case, I felt relieved.
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My favourite British line is the West Highland line. It was built across moorland where no one had succeeded in building a road. So everything in that area is there because of the railway line.
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