CC45g RAF 80th Anniversary Tornado FDC signiert Rt Hon Michael Portillo MP

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RAF(80)45g 1998 commemorative cover, dual numbered JS(CC)45g, to commemorate the 80th Anniversary of the Royal Air Force. Cover depicts Tornado and Boeing Sentry aircraft. Cover bears full set Bahamas 80th Anniversary of the RAF stamps which feature a Sopwith Camel, Short 184, Supermarine Spitfire and North American Mitchell III all cancelled on the First Day of Issue. Cover was flown in a Spitfire of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight.

Cover has been signed by Michael Portillo, former Secretary for the State of Defence.

Official special, numbered and certified on reverse.

Rt Hon Michael Portillo

Rt Hon Michael Portillo former Member of Parliament for Kensington & Chelsea

Michael Portillo was born in London in 1953. His father, Luis, came to Britain as a refugee at the end of the Spanish Civil War. His mother, Cora, was brought up in Fife. He attended a grammar school, Harrow County, and went on to read History at Peterhouse, Cambridge.

In 1976, he joined the Conservative Research Department where he spent three years. At the general election of 1979 he briefed Mrs Thatcher before her press conferences. After a short break from politics in the early 1980’s, he married Carolyn whom he’s known since his school days.

Michael returned to politics as a special adviser to Nigel Lawson when he was Chancellor, and won a by-election for the seat of Enfield Southgate in December 1984. He represented the seat for 13 years.

In 1986 he joined the government. Between then and 1997, he was Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Social Security, and gained valuable experience as Minister of State for Transport. He was also Minister of State for Local Government and Inner Cities. He subsequently gained experience as a Cabinet Minister at the Treasury, Department of Employment, and Defence.

Michael was elected MP for Kensington and Chelsea on November 25th 1999 by means of a by-election called following the death of sitting MP Alan Clark.

Michael is a member of the International Commission on Missing Persons in the former Yugoslavia which organizes the identification of massacre victims under the former United States Senator Bob Dole.

He was Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer from February 2000 to September 2001.

He is now a TV presenter

1998 saw Portillo make his first foray into broadcasting on Channel 4 with Portillo's Progress—three 60-minute-long programmes looking into the changed social and political scene in Britain. From 2002 onwards, Portillo developed an active career in media, both as a commentator on public affairs and as a writer and/or presenter of television and radio documentaries.

Between its inception in 2003 and cancellation in 2019, Portillo appeared in the BBC weekly political discussion programme This Week with Andrew Neil, and, until September 2010, Labour MP Diane Abbott.

Portillo has featured in a number of television documentaries. In 2002 these included one about Richard Wagner, and one in Spain: Great Railway Journeys: From Granada to Salamanca, for BBC Two (2002). In 2006 he made a programme on Spanish wildlife for BBC Two's The Natural World series. For an episode of the 2003 BBC Two series My Week In The Real World, in which politicians stepped into the shoes of members of the public, Portillo took over, for one week, the life, family and income of a single mother living on benefits in Wallasey.

He chose to present Queen Elizabeth I for the BBC's series of Great Britons in 2002. Between 2002 and 2007, he presented a discussion series called Dinner with Portillo on BBC Four, in which political and social questions are explored by Portillo and his seven guests over a four-course meal. His guests included Bianca Jagger, Grayson Perry, Francis Wheen, Seymour Hersh, PD James, Baroness Williams, George Galloway, Benazir Bhutto and Germaine Greer. In 2007, he participated in the BBC television project The Verdict, serving, with other well known figures, as a jury member hearing a fictional rape case. He was elected as the jury's foreman.

The documentary How To Kill a Human Being in the Horizon series featured Portillo carrying out a survey of capital punishment methods (including undertaking some near death experiences himself), in an attempt to find an 'acceptable' form of capital punishment. It was broadcast on BBC Two on 15 January 2008. He made a second Horizon documentary, titled How Violent Are You?, broadcast on 12 May 2009.

In 2008, Portillo made a documentary as part of the BBC Headroom campaign, which explored mental health issues. Portillo's documentary Michael Portillo: Death of a School Friend explores how the suicide of Portillo's classmate Gary Findon affected Findon's parents, brother, music teachers, schoolteachers, classmates, and Portillo himself. The programme was originally broadcast on 7 November 2008.

In 2009, he filmed a series titled Great British Railway Journeys, in which he explored, with the aid of George Bradshaw's 1863 tourist handbook, how the railways had a profound influence on the social, economic and political history of Britain. The series commenced broadcasting in January 2010. A second series was broadcast on BBC Two in 2011, and as of February 2019, there have been a total of ten series. Portillo also presented a similar television series called Great Continental Railway Journeys, following Portillo around continental Europe, using his George Bradshaw's 1913 Continental Railway Guide.

A second series was broadcast in 2013, and to date there has been a total of six series. In 2014, as part of the BBC's World War I commemorations, Portillo presented Railways of the Great War with Michael Portillo over five nights in August 2014. In early 2016, Portillo began a new BBC travel documentary series, Great American Railroad Journeys, which saw him travelling across the United States by rail. Other similar series followed: Great Indian Railway Journeys from 2018 and Great Alaskan and Canadian Railroad Journeys, which started airing in January 2019. A series Great Australian Railway Journeys began airing on BBC2 on October 26 2019, with six journeys across Australia.. This was followed by a series Great Asian Railway Journeys from January 27 2020.

A ten-part BBC Two series, Portillo's State Secrets, in which Portillo examines classified documents from the British National Archives, commenced on 23 March 2015.

The Enemy Files, a documentary presented by Portillo, was shown on RTÉ One in Ireland, as well as the BBC, ahead of the centenary of the Easter Rising in 2016.

A Channel 5 series, Portillo's Hidden History of Britain, was broadcast in 2018.

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