"If any of you have got an A-level it is because you have worked to get it. Go to any other country and when you have got an A-level, you have bought it."
— Michael Portillo

January 1, 1970

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Members of the Parliament of the United KingdomUniversity of Cambridge alumniJournalists from EnglandConservative Party (UK) politiciansBroadcasters
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Speech to Conservative students at Southampton University, quoted in Philip Webster and Jonathan Prynn, 'Portillo says sorry after ‘cheats’ gaffe', The Times (5 February 1994), p. 1