rainboe: The socialist trio set about destroying British defence capability. Gaitskell as 1951 Chancellor, funded Korean War Defence budget by putting charges on the hitherto wholly free NHS, thus provoking 3 resignations from Attlee's Govt., contributing to him losing the 1951 Election. Might your "trio" have been "Agent-of-Influence" Wilson, "red" Healey, "KGB-minded" Callaghan? If I may repeat from Key Publishing's TSR.2 Memories Project thread: KGB work through its Agent-of-Influence: No shred of evidence, though through Peter Wright's charade The Party Opposite would have made hay with a hint of a shred. Corrigan/Donkeys repeated it and extended the calumny to Callaghan. CDSs served happily, as these PMs deployed Polaris, WE177B, funded Chevaline and initiated Trident. I have seen/can't now find a quote by Sir A.Douglas-Home, Wilson's defeated opponent, 1964, in the sense: "I have always found Wilson to be sound on Defence fundamentals". KGB? Tripe.
Here's another politician's comment on Wilson's "destruction" of UK defence:
TSR.2 “an albatross round our necks (Healey) took the decision which would have had to be taken by (PT.His MoD was) writing (TSR.2) would have (to go) it was just that (Labour) took the opprobrium”. That was Healey's Tory predecessor, Peter Thorneycroft (B.Jackson/E.Bramall,Chiefs,Brassey’s,92,P361).