11 SEPTEMBER 1964, Page 11

Chosen

The Prime Minister, I hear, has now com- pleted his arrangements for his own campaign- ing at the election. He has been looking around for someone to act as his travelling companion, personal assistant, and link with the Tory organ- isation: and his choice has fallen upon the newly created Lord Oakshott, who sat as the Member for Bebington, Cheshire, from 1950 until last month. Sir Hendrie Oakshott, as he formerly was, is a large and amiable man, and there is something appropriate in the choice of a brand- new member of the House of Lords as- the former Fourteenth Earl's right-hand man. Lord Oakshott, I may add, is not an Etonian. He was at Rugby.

WATCHMAN