Inter -party advice
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Brimming with his usual vitality, Marcus Fox, MP, shook me warmly by the hand at a London reception held by the British Association of Removers and launched at once into a discussion Of Tory immigration policy.
Wondering whether he was ever likely to see it put into practice, I reminded him that as Conservative Shadow Minister of Transport, he said in a luncheon speech at a Road Haulage Association tipper convention at Harrogate, that transport was far too important to be submerged in the Department of the Environment and should be restored to its own Ministry. Not long afterwards the Labour Government took his advice.
He stood back and regarded me for a moment with gratified, dawning recollection.
"Do you know," he said, "you are the only person I have ever met who remembers that."
"I was paid to stay awake," I said.