If anything stinks it is Michael Portillo talking out of his arse
Michael Portillo describes as a terrorist act the blowing up of Pan Am flight 103 "Apart from the many Britons killed, 189 Americans had been murdered on a plane from Heathrow". By contrast, when the US blew up an Iranian airliner with a missile, Portillo conveniently describes this act as a blunder! "In July 1988 Iran became another when, through a blunder, an American missile brought down one of its airliners".
According to Portillo, Kenny MacAskill did not release Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi because he is dying with prostate cancer, rather it was "simply because he is unwell"!