Few transport ministers can say that their departure to another post was greatly regretted by many of the professionals with whom they came into contact. Few have stayed in office long enough to be as much as a footnote in transport before moving onwards, upwards, downwards or out of office. Norman Baker, whose promotion to the Home Office in the October reshuffle was announced just after we closed for press last month, is a notable exception to that rule of near anonymity or collective amnesia.
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