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• Shadow Transport Secretary Bernard Jenkin is to take on a wider transport brief following last week's shadow cabinet shake-up in which John Redwood was ousted from office in favour of former supermarket chief Archie Norman.
The reshuffle is expected to see Norman "shadowing the Department of Transport Secretary John Prescott more closely" with less direct involvement in transport issues than his predecessor.
Norman has come under attack from the Labour party for his continued stakeholding in takeover company Knutsford. He recently resigned from the board of Railtrack and from his paid consultancy with supermarket chain Asda.
Bernard Jerkin, who is due to submit the report from the shadow Road Haulage Forum to the transport select committee and the Chancellor this week, says: "John Redwood took transport right into the enemy camp and it was a great privilege working with him."
He says he now looks forward to working with Norman "whose experience will have an instinctive grasp of the problems facing road hauliers".
Geoff Dossetter, spokesman for the Freight Transport Association, says: "Archie Norman is the MP for Tunbridge Wells so we already know him quite well and look forward to working more closely with him. As a former chairman of a major transport operator, he has considerable familiarity with transport and logistics."