13/10/2011 This Week

Tonight, This Week presents political Autumnwatch. Will the

blue fox survive? The Defence Secretary, fobg Fox is under

pressure over his relation -- Liam Fox is under pressure over his

relationship with his best man. Anne McElvoy has been waiting for

him to break cover. That crafty old urban fox has been causing mayhem

in the Tory chicken coup. We're on his tail. Job spotting has become

more difficult as unemployment rises to a 17-year high. Music

superstar Wyclef Jean tells us why politics matters more in tough

economic times. Politics matters, because politics is the only way to

get things done. Keeping out of sight - the art of

the political adviser. Nigel Planer looks for comedy in

the hedgerows. One thing I have learnt by playing Peter Mandelson

is keep your friends close, keep your advisers closer. Binoculars at

the ready! Evening all. Welcome to This Week.

A week of improbable stories like the one about the car salesman from

Texas known as scar face who tried to hire a Mexican drugs cartel to

blow up a restaurant in Washington, DC where the ambassador ate his waf

fells. It almost sound believable, compared to the one about the self-

styled political adviser to the Defence Secretary, Liam Fox. Known

to his only friend as Adam Werritty, whose entire career has mirrored

Liam Fox's every professional move. He printed up his own make believe

business cards, appearing to operate on an off the books policy.

Passing himself as a go-between, gaining access to Fox's

departmental diary. Jetting around the globe to meet up with him on 18

occasions since the election. Paid for by a motly collection of

ideological fill lan introduce pists, who ever they are. And why

and this is the killer line, being not a dependant on any

transactional behaviour to maintain his income.

What does that mean in English? Clearly drafted by a very well paid

lawyer. Liam Fox now regrets he allowed the impression of wrong

doing to arise. The Secretary of State stood by and gazed into the

middle distance as the impression of wrongdoing went about its own

business. Speaking about those who use words to get themselves off the

hook I am joined by two of Westminster's least convincing

witnesses, the deaf, blind and drunk of late political chat. It is

Michael Portillo and Alan Johnson. Good evening. Very dumbed down

shirts. Do you mean toned down, rather than dumbed down?

OK then, give me a moment. The Care Quality Commission looked into the

care of the elderly in NHS hospitals. They looked at 100. 55

of them failed. One in five, the treatment of the elderly was

outside the law. It was against the law. They had neglected the

patients. It struck me this follows a recent report about the failures

of abdominal surgery in NHS hospitals. The death rate is four

times as high as in the United States. Of course we have the Mid

Staffs things where 1,000 patients died, surplus to what was the case.

Horrendous. If you look at cancer survival rates they are worse in

this country than other countries. I tell you what strikes me, the

Government, I saw it in the Prime Minister's speech. It goes on

saying more and more money nor the NHS, yet they are trying to reform

it. You wonder if it would not be better to say, look our NHS is not

doing the job. It is doing worse than other health systems in

continental countries that is why we have to reform it. Someone on

Question Time said tonight, get it real, it is not the envy of the

world. I think your catalogue of wows may be the reason why it isn't.

My moment, I think a step forward for grown-up politics. Yesterday

was opposition day, which means we laid the motion. Our motion drew

attention to the mess the Government are making of the

economy. What the Government generally does to one of these

amendments we put down they have cocked up the economy. The

Government put down an amendment which says is the most fantastic,

wise Government ever in the history of Parliament. Do you know,

yesterday the Government didn't do that? They allowed us to debate,

not end up with a North Korean amendment. I think, good for the

Government. They may not do well on the economy, but they are doing

very well on making Parliament a much more mature debating place.

Maybe they were hoping to pick up ideas. Now politicians often have a

bit of rough. Sorry, often have a bit of a rough time. And not just

from me. The Troubles of the world are laid at their feet. When there

is no-one else to blame we pile it at their door. I know, your heart

is bleeding now into your little glass of Blue Nun. Politics is a

mug's game. Why, you might ask, did Wyclef Jean decide last year, when

his native Haiti was in trouble, to run for President? Surely he had

better things to do than get embroiled in politics? No, here is

# Election time's coming # Politics matter. If you want to change

something around the world, no matter how much you want to sing

and talk about it has to go through a Parliament, a Congress.

# They go back to work on Monday # I ran for President because over

51% of the population is a youth population. So, if we're talking

about a reconstruction of a country. The youth population should be

included in that. When I myself decided I was running for President,

I was like, Wyclef don't do it, you can do much more than not being

President. We cannot sit around and sing songs. If we keep doing that

the Parliaments, the Congress, they're going to do exactly what

they want to do. And not listen to the voice of the vit Seines.

-- citizens. What I learnt when I ran for the

presidency of Haiti is it's more popular to be a rock star than to

be, than to run for President. The kind of people that we need as

politicians are thinkers that are thinking for the future when it

comes to energy, when it comes to job creation, technology, but how

can we do it differently? I think we need new thinkers for a new way

of politics. The first things the politicians

must learn is how to get their swagger up. You know, and swagger

means you have to have that certain charm about you, that certain

charisma about you. Do you know what I mean? For example, President

Barack Obama, at times when he was running for the first term, I am

sure you saw him do this. Now this is swag. He got it from Jay Z.

What turns people off politics is basically the citizen feels that

every politicians do exactly what they need to do to get elected.

They say exactly what you said and once they get elected the

population feels there's no change. If you want to get things done in

the sense of stamping it, you want to get legislation. You want to

change policy. You have to be part of a political structure to make

that happen. Wyclef Jean joins us here in our

studio. Welcome to the programme. Thank you. It is refreshing to hear,

I mean musicians have got involved in politics, it has either been

single issue or eeg go led. It is interesting to hear that you say it

is political process. I still have my musician eye. Looking at you

three I think I could recreate the Fujis.

He doesn't know who they are! You think it's important to get

involved in the process. I think we, as musicians, what we do is we sing

policy all the time. Artists like John Lennon and different artys and

Bob Mali. -- Marley. You have to engage in the politics.

Why at the time you choose, why did you get in, particularly Haiti

politics, it is a murky world. is a murky world, but looking at

Nelson man del da and Martin Luther King, at the time when an

earthquake are buried under rubble and we are talking about

reconstruction of a country. I say 52% of the population is a youth

population, I felt they had to be included in the reconstruction.

This was an opportunity for job creation. Some musicians get

involved in raising money for charities, Band-Aid being famous.

Others have their own axe to griepbld. This was different for

you though -- grind. This was different for you. You running for

office, I assume would have to have a set of policies a platform to run

on? Definitely. A lot underestimated me, just to be frank

with you. I didn't get a chance to make it. I got taken out of the

residency, the fact they said you need five years residency. I did

have a policy plan. I didn't get to that point where I could share the

future of the country. They were scared of you? I think what happens

is when it comes to real change and real things to happen, I thought

that the fear came from the fact that I have enough allys in the

world that actually I could have rallied up to actually make a

change. I can see that. Surprising for a musician to get

involved in the process rather than the Grandstanding? Yes, I entirely

agree with you Andrew that it is really refreshing. A lot of people

are pretty intellectually lazy about this and say, all politics is

correct. Actually, you know there have been many attempts in the

world to change things, avoiding political processes and avoiding

political parties. For example, when the United States was first

established they did not have political parties. No, they thought

they were a bad thing. They thought they were terrible things. Within

20 years they had to have political parties. There is no other way to

get groups of people around a programme which will be effective.

I was reading today the last royal governor of said the easiest thing

in the world is to convince people that their Government is bad. It is

very, very toz make people despondent and cynical about

politics. If you are going to have change and believe in democracy,

then the only thing to do is get involved. If you think that the

politicians you have today are a group of people, then by all means

You mentioned John Lennon - this naivety was frustrating for me as a

postman on a council estate. You could see you had to join the

political system - it demanded that you had to get power. You had to be

in Parliament. You had to have a programme. It seemed as if it was

too much trouble to do that. It is amazingly encouraging. I wonder

about this point that you have to have swagger. That is the view of

Obama, Tony Blair. You can't get elected unless you have got this

charisma. I wonder, there's lots of very good people who could do very

good things but won't past that -- won't pass that swagger test.

Einstein had real cool swagger. We rate Einstein. When I say "swagger"

- swagger is not necessarily within just the charisma. Swagger is if

you are a politician, you have to be able to communicate with the

citizen. The citizen has to just feel that what you are giving out

is not bogus. Yeah. In that term, that is where the politicians lack.

They are not connecting with the public. This is where the trouble

starts. Isn't it true that in general, on both sides of the

Atlantic, there is a general increased cynicism about politics

and politicians and real belief that not - it doesn't matter who

you thought for that not much will change? Yes. That comes from a view

that politics is about politicians. Politics is about the people. If

you think it is simply - there is a group of people who do politics and

you have no way of influencing them, then the game is over. In a

democracy, anybody can be a politician. I mean, he began as a

postman and I began - I don't know what I began as. A politician!

didn't come from a political dynasty. My father was a Spanish

immigrant. We are both people who came into it. Anybody else, you

know, potentially can come into it. Politics has to be about the people.

I would suggest the lesson from your experience - you decided to

get involved in your country's politics as a time of great crisis

in the country. You could argue that although it is very different

that on both sides of the Atlantic this is a time of economic crisis.

Rather than people being switched off, they ought to get more

involved? Definite I will have to get more involved. We need to stop

fighting. We need a bi-partisan front. We have financial crises

through the entire world. Starvation rate, you see what is

going on. Once again, if you are getting into politics, you want

things to change. Remember, there is a group of people that elect you

to do a job and that is why you get into politics. You can never think

that you are bigger than these people. Now, if you two had your

chance to do it again, would you go into politics again? I would, yeah.

I was reflecting there about the world trade, the way that people

are kept starving in poorer countries because Japan has a huge

tariff on rice imports. We tried to change that. So many young people

got involved with Make Poverty History. And the fact it dragged on

probably meant that many of those turned away from politics. If we

could only instead of it being a single issue, get people engage and

see the process through. Would you, Michael? I certainly would. There

is a lot of stress in politics. The press gives you a very hard time.

Your political career will end in tears. It is such a privilege to be

involved. The canvas is so broad. You are dealing with such big

issues. It is a great honour to do it. Why are you in Britain?

here for Party in the Pink and Breakthrough Breast Cancer. Zumba

is very important. I suggest you all get into it. It is dancing

fitness, it keeps you in top shape and on Sundayly be performing. The

cool thing about fitness is there are -- on Sunday I will be

performing. The cool thing about fitness is there are fun ways to do

it. If you need help forming a group, we are available.

# One time # Two time... #

We could do that! Speak to my agent! Now, it may be later than a

knighthood for Bruce Forsyth, because coming up actor, novelist,

playwright, all round showbiz polymath Nigel Planer telling us

why Peter Mandelson deserves some overdue affection. For those who

like to spread the love wider, there is our interweb site. We have

now signed up to some new-fangled thing called the Facebook! Now, we

are a caring bunch, after all who else would give so many former MPs

a break? Yeah, exactly. So we are troubled here that our current

bunch are dealing with severe psychological stress. The cause?

Having to answer constituents' e- mails, coping with the new expenses

system and listening to jokes about themselves. Bet you Dr Fox thinks

he's got an easy week this week. We sent Anne McElvoy to the This Week

garden. It is time for Westminster Autumn is nearly here. There have

been some wild goings on in the Westminster garden. Fortunately,

there's always a record of who's been about and what's been going on.

Look at that. It is that crafty urban fox. Must be about the 40th

time he has been creeping around here. I accept it was a mistake to

allow distinctions to be blurred between my professional

responsibilities and my personal loyalties to a friend. Friends are

a wonderful thing, but Dr Fox does seem to have taken it a bit far

with Mr Werritty. He ended up talking his language somewhere

between a lawyer and a thesaurus to get him off the hook. One rarely

spotted Scottish woodland creature had him in his sights. It is not

part of the rules you can ask your friends to fund your advisers and

then your advisers can travel the world claiming to represent you.

Liam Fox is thought of as a lone wolf in the Tory tribe. There is at

least one good reason why they rallied around. Dr Fox has another

close friend. She's the former matriarch of the Den, Lady Thatcher.

Dr Fox accompanied her in public. He's a Standard Bearer of the right

and that's a good reason why David Cameron doesn't want to pull the

trigger at the moment. I think the Defence Secretary has done an

excellent job clearing up the mess that he was left by Labour. Fox-

hunting has overshadowed some of the quieter rural pursuits this

week. Everyone forgot about the Labour reshuffle. Now he's got

quite a young brood and the female of the species is well represented

in the pecking order. With the exception of the greater crested

Harriet Harman, there are a lot of fledglings here. Ed must be a bit

nervous about well they will do in the Darwinian struggle at

Westminster. Are they ready to fly the nest? These are young people,

people who have not been in Parliament long. I hold to the view

that if you are good enough, you are old enough. Deep in the

undergrowth these days are the lesser spotted Lib Dems. Oh look.

Even these peaceful places are full of fights and flurries in the

hedgerows. Chris Huhne admitted to briefing against the Home Secretary

Theresa May. What was her reaction? Well, I haven't - I have left a

message for her. I haven't managed to speak to her. I left a message.

We've had mild weather, most of the leaves are still on the trees. But

maybe the animals should be getting ready for a long hard winter.

the day of the worst unemployment figures in 17 years, the Prime

Minister is fiegtding to save the job of the Defence Secretary --

fighting to save the job of the Defence Secretary. He is doing

nothing to save the jobs of hundreds of thousands of people up-

and-down this country. Ed Miliband is predicting a bleak midwinter. He

is looking more confident as his emphasis on the woes of the economy

is going to pay off. Still, David Cameron's got some tiger in his

tank, too. You are the party that borrowed too much, that spent too

much, that left us with the unregulated banks that has left us

with the mess that we have to clear up. When you see those two sitting

on the frontbench who worked for so long in the Treasury, you have to

ask - you wouldn't bring back Fred Goodwin to sort out the banks, why

would you bring them back to sort It's time for a bit of hibernation

around here. It's good to know the wild creatures are still up for a

fight. Who let him in?! We will see her again in the spring! We are

joined by journalist, former Lib Dem adviser, Miranda Green. Let me

ask you in the words of a famous song, Dr Fox, should he stay or

should he go? Should go. Because? He should go. He said I know it

looks bad. If it looks bad, it is bad. If half the things that he's

accused of have any substance to them, he's a goner. He met Harvey

Bolton, a businessman looking for MoD contracts, just him and this

guy. Werritty he met. General John Allen, he met him alone with Adam

Werritty. Leaving aside the fact Werritty had an office in the MoD,

this is extraordinary. He had an office? I missed that bit. OK.

Should he stay or should he go? think it is very bad. He is

determined to fight to stay. It seems the massed ranks of the Tory

benches are determined to fight to keep him. They are waiting on the

Cabinet secretary's report? They are fighting hard. You think he

should go? I think he is doomed, yes. Doomed. We are all doomed.

are all doomed in the long run. Former Defence Secretary, Michael

Portillo, should he stay or should he go? I think it is all about the

money. Where has the money come from for Mr Werritty and has he

made any money out of his position? The story in the Times this

morning... The Friday Times? Does not look good. It appears that his,

that Werritty's air fares and hotel bills have been funded by a group,

what did you describe them as? are basically people, there's some

hedge fund people, lobbyists, property developer, they are people

who are very transatlantic, pro- Israel, Thatcherite? I take it this

has not been registered anywhere? No. Here is a man travelling

alongside the Secretary of State, a lot of money involved, has not been

registered anywhere. I would have thought that would prove fatal.

Could you imagine as Defence Secretary having someone who would

meet you abroad regularly, went to meetings, fixed meetings for you?

Is that conceivable as a Minister of the Crown? I think it is

inconceivable. More particularly... Unless it was your official

adviser? Of course, that is completely different. I always

think it inconceivable that you set up this arrangement and not imagine

one day it would come out. Do you think - isn't it possible that at

some of these meetings, which involved generals and other

important people in the British governance, that they thought that

this chap, Mr Werritty was more than just a friend, they probably

assumed he was some kind of official? Or Special Adviser?

you are talking about British generals, that would be

inconceivable. Surely anybody in the Ministry of Defence would be

very clear about the person's status. I think that is hard to

argue. Pretty damaging that he had business cards, saying that he - he

didn't say he was adviser to the Secretary of State for Defence, but

it said he was adviser to the Also he changed his area of

expertise as his chum moved. That is not unusual.

He's not a special adviser. didn't he make him a special

adviser. For Cameron Her Majesty's Government has a foreign policy

articulated by the Foreign Secretary, William Hague, and they

have Liam Fox, foreign policy. Parallel operation. Because he

thought that Cameron and the Civil Service were too soft. It's quite -

these are people, as I understand it, who helped to bank-roll Liam

Fox's campaign to be leader of the Conservative Party. He didn't

succeed but he didn't have a bad campaign. They like what Dr Fox

stands for, as compared to what David Cameron stands for. Dr Fox

doesn't trust the Tory establishment or the Ministry of

Defence. He has tried to build a small parallel, think-tank adviser

operation. Isn't that enough? not transparent at all.

To build a think-tank is perfectly all right in ministerial terms. The

Prime Minister might not think it an adviser who is funded by that

and for it not to be declared, that is very difficult. So you form,

there's union nimty here, you don't think he will survive and shouldn't

survive? This is the first time I have said this. I have tried to

keep off the subject. If it is true he has flown around the world and

it has not been declared anywhere that seems unsis tainable. Do you

think David Cameron -- unsustainable. Do you think David

Cameron has made a mistake by letting it go on for so long.

doesn't want to lose his Defence Secretary and in a coalition,

reshuffles are difficult. There's no love lost between the two of

them. I don't think he wants a reshuffle at the moment. He doesn't

want a reshuffle in a coalition. They are more complicated. He

doesn't want Liam Fox, with these supporters around him, particularly

on the backbenchers doing unimaginable things into the tent.

Very diplomatic of you. Just stopped myself in time. We are

grateful you did. Ironically I think Liam Fox has

cemented his position this week by a lot of tittle-tattle about him.

Real gossip which has nothing to do with the case at all. And you have

noticed we have not mentioned a word of that. You have now.

It has put the Prime Minister into an impossible position because to

get rid of Fox, you know, on the back of that gossip, would risk the

appearance that he was kind of allowing gossip to ride the man out.

What he's got to wait for, apparently is for the facts to come

out. What I think is embarrassing now is the Times seems to be going

for the facts quicker than civil servants. The unemployment figures

out, dreadful. So far the coalition has not been blamed. Are we close

to turning upon it. How long that - - can that worse? I think we are in

for a bleak winter. I think we're in for several bleak winters. I

don't think the coalition has the opportunity of changing its policy

because its commitment to reduce the deficit at the rate at which it

said it will is to secure the markets F it altered that we'll

have all the problems, plus it will cost us much more to borrow. We may

not be able to fund that. We will lose our triple-A credit rating and

the pound will sink. The worse it gets for the country the better it

is for Labour. Politicians are often in this position? Ed Miliband

was making the right points. If it had not been the hum bris we have

seen last year, unemployment will fall in each of the next three

years. The absence of any acceptance there was a global

economic problem that started in 208 and now everything is the

result of the global problem. They have left themselves pretty

vulnerable by the kind of statements "We are out of the

danger zone." Actually they didn't have to dig that hole for

themselves Maybe put a floor under this. And given a much morale lis

tick view to the British -- more realistic view to the British

public of how things were. You weren't tempted? No. They

didn't approach you because they knew the answer would be, "No?"

Absolutely. We are grateful for this. Otherwise we could not have

had you. I hope Miss Abbott is watching. Who to you rate? I think

Rachel Reeves is an important appointment. I once tried to get

her as my paid special adviser. is the one everyone is tipping.

Briefly, for you, these atrocious stories about the care of the

elderly, these big NHS reforms which have caused the coalition

problems, just a yes or no, is there anything in these reforms

which will stop these atrocious things from happening? The quality

of care is not the same as the structure of this organisation.

Andrew Lansley did look to be cheered up to be given bad news

about the state of the NHS. Does anybody like Chris Huhne? Well,

he's a carnivore in the Lib Dem party which is seen as herb vor. He

is an unusual man. That was not a yes or a no? It wasn't, was it?

Thank you very much. Beautifully done. There's an old sailing in

Westminster, never work with children or animals or Diane Abbott.

A lesson we learnt the hard way. One Labour's crack shadow health

team, I am sure you can name them all, are now learning to their

political cost. But alongside children and animals and Labour's

own Florence Nightingale you can add a certain Adam Werritty to the

list of emphatic no nos, if only Liam Fox had a trusted confident, a

person he could turn to, a best man, say, who could warn him. If only!

That is why we decided to put Peter, Peter, are you there? It's

Tony. You've got to let me in. Look, please, Peter. It's urgent. Help me.

The comic strip team are back, with a film sat tier of new Labour and a

scene- stealing performance by plane plane plane as Peter

Mandelson. -- Nigel Planer as Peter Mandelson.

What makes a political adviser so special? What are the dangers of

getting too close? Liam Fox is finding out to his cost. I accept

that mistakes were made and I should not have allowed the

impression of wrongdoing to arise. And I'm very sorry for that.

Meanwhile, the top civil servant, chief councillor to the Prime

Minister, Gus O'Donnell announced his retirement this week. He was

not nicknamed God just because of his initials. As Margaret Thatcher

once said, advisers advise, ministers decide. So, maybe we

shouldn't feed our fear of the power behind the throrn. Right you,

get your hands up. Who are you? Peter Mandelson.

After he was released on jail he joins us now. You had to do a lot

of research I assume to get to play this part. In the cause of that did

you have views on -- did your views on Mr Mandelson change? They did.

My main source of research was the wraths child film, which I watched

again and again. She took a camera. Half the time he was not away she

was filming. The camera angle is low quite a lot of the time. She

took the camera right through the campaign when he was Gordon Brown's

campaign manager. It's quite, it's quite revealingment and I did end

up rather liking him. I think he came out of it rather well. Do you

think, do the media play up this power behind the thrown business?

Or was he the power -- throene. was more -- throne. He was more

preoccupied with whether the tie was straight. However many times I

straighten it, once he gets in front of the camera his tie is

crooked. I listened to his memoirs every day as well. He read them on

an audio book. His voice picked up that. Special advisers, which

didn't really exist in the '50s, until the mid-60s, now more

important than ever, aren't they? Yeah, I mean, when I became a

special adviser in 1979 we were five in the entire fofplt. I think

when I -- in the entire Government. I then when I was Secretary of

State, there were 20 in the Government. It has grown vastly

since then. When I was a special adviser I was in touch with the

adviser to the Prime Minister, who later was the Chief Whip, many

years later. I called up to say if he could fix something. He said it

is not appropriate for us to have this conversation. Special advisers

never spoke to the press. Whereas now that is one of their biggest

jobs, dealing the press. Did you feel in Government there was a time

when Alistair Campbell and Peter Mandelson were more important than

the Cabinet? I would not describe him as a special adviser. Before

that. He was head of communications for the Labour Party. No, I think

what we did, my experience of them, I took mine to five different

Cabinet departments. It was the same and I saw how skillfully they

intertwined themselvess with the private office of the Civil Service.

A skill to doing that. I saw where others were not as good as doing

and therefore created the resentment. They liked good,

special advisers who knows the ministers mind and who can ensure

in a sensitive way that they do the job they are supposed to do.

There is a cross over there between them and the press officer. You

were saying, the press officer, I think there's a muddle in the

public's mind. Alistair Campbell, he was a press

officer wasn't he? A press office. He was more than that too.

Exactly. Where to you draw the line between the two? We speak to

special advisers all the time to get information about ministers.

That used to be not the case. there is a special adviser. I had

one who dealt with me and I had one who didn't go anywhere near the

media. Are you portraying them as shade you characters in this

programme? Everybody in the... It aets definitely more fun having --

it's definitely more fun having to play shady characters. What struck

me about the Mandelson-Brown relationship, is the concealed

hysteria. Peter loves all that. tears and screaming fits.

target of the sat tier is all the plethora of memoirs which came out.

We quote the page numbers of some of the quotes because they are

funny. And, as you saw, it's set in a black and film, 1950s setting.

thought it was our colour had gone off. It is black and white, like

the 39 Steps, which somehow suits the mellow drama. All the emotions,

yes, they are very raised in it. Nigel, here's a suggestion. I

suggest you ought to mug up on Andy Coulson now, or Adam Werritty?

Prince of Darkness I fancied. It's in the past. Michael Howard. He had

something of the night. I think I could do a good Michael Howard. I'm

not sure about Werritty. It is early days. There'll be programmes

about them one day. You are looking for your Ann Widdecombe, aren't

you? It is on tomorrow night. The show is tomorrow night. 9pm on

Channel 4. Great. I've set my sky plus for it. That's your lot

tonight. We are off on the Holloway Road for one of their puppy donor

specials, with Hugh fernly. He said it is OK to eat them, so long as it

is after midnight. And they are washed down by Blue Nun special

vintage. Known as vina collapso. Michael Portillo, soon to be Lord

Portillo, I think, revealed to those that his famous quiff is kept