• Transport Secretary John Moore goes to great lengths to
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keep fit and trim. As a student he was a successful runner and the London School of Economics's athletic lobby helped to vole him in as president of the union. He still keeps up the sporting image.
He swims regularly and he was obviously a jogger long before it became a designer tracksuit craze — but be warned. He bears the scars.
The front half of his right foot has had to be replaced he says matter-of-factly, and he has a set of artificial toe joints. lie is equally blunt about how and why. Too many years running on hard pavements he says.
Sparring partners in the political world have apparently told him that whenever they meet he always seems to be limping, or carrying his arm in a sling. The sporting life has left him with a dodgy knee too.
It all appears to be a bit of a joke at the Department of Transport. Moore readily admits that he is regularly teased about the exercise bicycle he has brought into Marsharn Street.
It's not surprising really. Just think of it — a Transport Secretary pedalling furiously away, every day, getting absolutely nowhere at all.