PM's clean sweep at MoT
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from our political correspondent • The Prime Minister has carried out a Ministerial clean sweep at the Transport Ministry.
A week after sacking the Minister, Mr. Richard Marsh, Mr. Wilson in his second instalment of Government changes covering the lower ranks, has dispatched the Parliamentary 'Secretary, Mr. Neil Carmichael, to a similar post at the Ministry of Technology.
Successor to Mr. Carmichael, who held the job for just over two years, is Mr. Albert Murray, MP for Gravesend, who has been promoted from the backbenches.
Mr. Murray, who unsuccessfully fought Mr. Harold Macmillan, then Prime Minister. at Bromley in 1959, is aged 39. He has been a member of both Southwark Borough Council and the old London County Council. A printer by trade, he joined the Labour Party in 1946 and has been a member of the London Labour Party executive since 1961.
Like the new Minister, Mr. Mulley, Mr. Murray has had no experience in the transport field. His special interests up to now have been education, care of deprived children, and housing.
He is married and his hobby is -watching sport". His promotion puts up his salary from £3,250 as an ordinary MP, to £5,000.