Levies to support other industry projects, mainly in research, found more support under the Wilson government of the 1960s.
It is probable that this was due to union and political pressure from the Wilson government.
High inflation rates in the early period of the Wilson government settled it: new primary roads for London could not be afforded.
Significant public spending restraint had in fact been introduced earlier in the 1960s under the Wilson government.
The Wilson government inherited serious economic problems in October 1964, but made matters worse by its own decisions.
After three years of repeated monetary crises, the Wilson government finally and reluctantly devalued the currency, to $2.40 a pound from $2.80.
Under the first Wilson government, for the first time in British history, more money was allocated to education than to defence.
Housing was a major policy area under the first Wilson government.
The first Wilson government thus saw the distribution of income became more equal, while reductions in poverty took place.
That would be the Wilson government that lost the general election in June 1970 then?