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People close to Westminster tell me that 35-year old Shadow Transport Minister Peter Walker is likely to be the Conservative Party's whiz-kid of 1968. Not content with handling the gigantic full-time assault on the Transport Bill—involving 1,400 amendments, countless hours of committee work and endless journeys to stiffen the morale of hauliers, busmen, traders, taxpayers and so forth—he has now announced that this is also to be the year when he will tour Australia, New Zealand, Canada and America.
His touring task is "to explain our determination that the next Government will not only restore confidence in the words of Britain, but it will be a Government that will contribute to the development of trade and industry throughout the Western world."
Mr. Walker's predecessors as Tory whizkids were Messrs. Heath and Barber (Common Market and R.P.M.; and Steel Bill) who've ended up as leader and chairman of the Party.
find it interesting to speculate which niche Peter Walker might be carving out for himself—especially if the Heath/Barber axis failed to deliver the goods against the wily Mr. Wilson.