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Michael Portillo's loss of the Enfield Southgate seat in the 1997 general election to Stephen Twigg came as a shock to many politicians and commentators, and came to symbolise the extent of the Labour landslide victory. Michael Portillo had been widely expected to contest the Conservative leadership after the General Election, which without a Commons seat he was unable to do. There had been a poll in ''The Observer'' newspaper on the weekend before the election which showed that Portillo held only a three-point lead in his hitherto safe seat.〔 He had a memorable interview with Jeremy Paxman on the election night prior to the calling of his own seat. Paxman decisively opened the interview with the question "so Michael, are you going to miss the limo?" - a clear reference to the strong feeling going around on election night that he had lost his own seat. Portillo was then stumped with the follow up question of "are we seeing the end of the Conservative Party as a credible force in British politics?". He has since admitted that he knew he had lost his seat by the time of the interview:〔 Portillo's defeat represented a 17.4% swing to Labour. Although Twigg retained the seat with an increased majority in 2001, it returned to the Conservative Party in 2005 with a swing of 8.7%.〔(BBC News )〕 =='Portillo moment'== (詳細は1997 loss, symbolising the loss of the election by the Conservative Party, has been referred to as "the Portillo moment", and in the cliché "Were you up for Portillo?" (i.e., "Were you awake/did you see Portillo's result announced on television?")〔("Nation rejoices as Portillo loses seat" ), ''The Observer'', 12 September 1999〕 Portillo himself commented, thirteen years later, that as a consequence "My name is now synonymous with eating a bucketload of shit in public."〔(My moment is yours, Ed Balls ) Michael Portillo, ''The Guardian'', 6 May 2010〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Enfield Southgate in the 1997 General Election」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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