Let’s sculpt our future
When I was a washer-up in Parliament, and not yet a peer, Mr Harold Wilson was confidently in the last days of his leadership of the government. He did not know that of course, because this was April 1970 and he got booted out by the electorate in June. When he first came to power in 1964 Mr Wilson had promised us a ‘new broom’, a sweeping away of the old way of doing things. “The white heat of technology” was to help replace the basic industries, largely state-owned, that were lagging in innovation.
