Portillo realised that he had been hole, and changed for the better. He admitted that he had had gay experiences at uni, supported minimum wage, and knew that it was no point being slash, and burn politician as he knew that the tories wouldn't get back for a generation unless they changed. Sadly, he alienated the people that promoted him, like Tebbit and Thatcher, and thus ensured Iain Duncan-Smith won the leadership against him and Ken Clarke.
I MIGHT have voted tory if Ken Clarke or Chris Pattern had been their leader.
Barbara Castle introduced stiffer penalties for drink driving and got a huge amount of abuse for it. She showed some of the letters she had received with one saying 'You've destroyed my darts team you witch'.