"Offramp" wrote in message

On 6 Feb, 16:04, "Basil Jet"
wrote:

Every bit of this programme should be of interest to people here.

You are right sir! How could they get so much into a ½-hr programme?
And Portillo is such a good presenter; he is a great advert for the
Oxbridge Universities, whichever one he went to. He also did a very
moving programme recently where he met some of his family in Spain,
still divided from the horrors of the Spanish Civil War.

He said he used to have a flat on Whitehall in the Admiralty. I wonder
how he got that? Was he in the Civil Service before becoming an MP?

Wouldn't this have been while he was defence secretary in the mid 1990s?