Portillista
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Portillista (plural Portillistas)
- (UK politics) A political supporter of Michael Portillo (born 1953), British journalist, broadcaster, and former Conservative politician.
- 2001 October 3, Matthew Tempest, “New Labour's power-dressed future”, in The Guardian[1]:
- Yet despite that pedigree, he describes himself as "essentially a Portillista" – liberal on social affairs, centre-right on economics.
- 2020, Michael Ashcroft, Going for Broke: The Rise of Rishi Sunak, London: Biteback Publishing, →ISBN, page unknown:
- If Sunak is highly regarded by his colleagues, he does not have a dedicated group of supporters in Parliament: there is no Sunakian equivalent of the Portillistas, the Brownites, or the Friends of Dave.