ABSTRACT
Elected after thirteen years of Conservative rule, the 1964-1970 Labour Governments entered office pledging radical reforming and modernisation. Harold Wilson and his ministerial colleagues presented themselves as dynamic and innovative, a break with the thirteen wasted years of Conservative rule, hence ideas encapsulated within the metaphorical theme of ‘the white heat of the technological change’ were plentiful. Labour’s regional policy, which was to help deliver the great National Plan, assisted by decentralised economic government, was intended to be a significant component of this avowedly new approach.
