Represents
the Kensington and Chelsea constituency which covers all of the
Borough south of a line which runs approximately along St James
Gardens, Elgin Crescent, Ladbroke Grove and the Westway.
Michael
Portillo is the shadow chancellor. Darling of Tory right
and hate-figure for the left. He was elected as a MP in '84. He
rose to employment secretary and defence secretary, but ducked standing
against John Major's leadership in '95. Famously defeated in the
'97 election, he reinvented himself as socially liberal Tory and
was re-elected as MP for Kensington and Chelsea November 1999.
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