The Uncertainty of a Prime Minister

When Portillo famously lost his seat in 1997, he had the double trauma of not only losing his seat when he thought he would probably win but noting the entire country was euphoric that he had been defeated. And then something very curious happened as often does in politics. The Portillo they saw wasn't quite the Portillo himself. We see figures but we don't really see them. With Portillo there were many layers of complexity including an uncertainty on his party who he was. He got his seat back, admitted that he had had gay affairs to the horror of those who had idolized him before. Became Shadow Chancellor and had changed. When he finally did fight a leadership contest and obviously