For full TV listings for the week, see thetimes.co.uk/tvplannerViewing guide, by Joe ClayPortillo: The Trouble with the ToriesChannel 5, 9pmMichael Portillo, the former Tory golden boy and the man once regarded as Margaret Thatcher’s heir apparent, lost his seat in the 1997 general election when Labour roared to a landslide victory under Tony Blair. Having been a part of that catastrophic failure for the Conservative Party he is ideally placed to front this excellent and frequently combative documentary looking at why the most successful political party of the past two centuries is being torn to pieces. It’s Brexit of course, “the greatest national crisis since the Second World War”, says Portillo, dressed in a rather more sober suit than we normally…

Source: The Times July 24, 2019 23:14 UTC