Married Carolyn Claire Eadie

Harrow County School for Boys
Peterhouse College, Cambridge (MA history 1975).

Conservative Research Department 1976-79
Special adviser to David Howell, MP, as Secretary of State for Energy 1979-81
Oil industry consultant 1981-83
Special adviser to: Cecil Parkinson, MP, as Secretary of State for Trade and Industry 1983
Nigel Lawson, MP, as Chancellor of the Exchequer 1983-84
Presenter: "Portillo's Progress" Channel 4 1998
BBC TV programme in series "Great Railway Journeys" 1999
BBC Radio programme "The Legacy of Division" 2000.

Contested Birmingham Perry Barr June 1983. Member for Enfield Southgate 1984-97, for Kensington and Chelsea since November 25, 1999 by-election.

PPS to Secretary of State for Transport 1986
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State DHSS 1987-88
Minister of State: at Department of Transport 1988-90
at Department of Environment (Minister for Local Government and Inner Cities) 1990-92
Chief Secretary to HM Treasury 1992-94
Secretary of State for: Employment 1994-95
Defence 1995-97
Member, Shadow Cabinet 2000-
Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer 2000-.