On 8 Feb, 12:19, "Recliner" wrote:
"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?

That seems to be it. At 21:37 he says "At one time I used to live in a
flat up there in Admiralty House." For some reason I thought he
mentioned that he was not an MP at the time. I was wrong!