Transport MPs look OK
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Most likely casualty on June 9, transport select committee hairman, Tom Bradley, who is rying to hold on in Leicester iast for the SDP, having won the eat for Labour in 1979. He could lang on but his prospects are airly gloomy, especially as .abour is fielding former Jational Council of Civil Liberies leader Patricia Hewitt.
Another possible casualty is allow committee member and ormer Junior Transport Miniser Neil Carmichael. As a result If boundary changes the former ilasgow Kelvingrove Labour iP is up against SDP leader Roy lenkins in Hillhead in a contest oo close to predict.
If the polls earlier this week ;re anything to go by, then Shalow Transport Secretary Albert iooth could possibly be in rouble. According to academic ;tudies his Barrow in Furness ;eat has become more marginal, )ut it would still take a major ;hitt to the Tories to unseat him.
All three Tory ministers ;hould have no worries about he election, although Mrs Thatcher may decide to play musical chairs in the Department of Transport if she wins.
In the event of a last-minute switch away from the Tories on a massive scale, then Peter Fry, one of the leading supporters of the haulage industry in the Commons, could conceivably find himself in trouble in Wellingborough.
One of the most interesting ' struggles is in Keighley where Gary Waller, another Tory with close interests in transport and Mr Howell's Parliamentary Private Secretary, is fighting one of the most marginal seats in the country. It was Labour last time but under the boundary changes it should go Conservative.