George Brown, First Secretary of State, was MP for Derby(Belper), where he may have tipped Jenkins/Healey towards Medway for HS681, not Pegasus. His main legacy is as butt of Private Eye's immortal "tired and emotional". Healey would have failed Positive Vetting for the job of MoD Messenger, having been a student Communist. But in 1936 the choice appeared to lie between that and fascism. Might you concede some regard for Major Healey,MC,Anzio Military Landing Officer?
Attlee tasked Wilson, Pres. of the Board of Trade, with developing $-sparse Trade with USSR: this the jaw, jaw, not war, war approach that Churchill, now Obama endorse(d). In Opposition he earned as Consultant on E.European Trade, such as to Gannex. As PM his Cabinet included CND stalwarts, inc. Mrs.B.Castle, F.Cousins, A.Greenwood (more as MPs, inc M.Foot): you and I might concur they were deluded, exploited by folk with quite a different agenda. Wilson/Healey did Polaris &tc. nonetheless. R.Crossman, George Wigg were to the fore in questioning East of Suez. Times then were similar to now: broke, besieged currency. Outgoing Tory Chancellor R.Maudling (he that chopped V.1000) handed over his desk to Callaghan with: “Sorry to leave such a mess, old c@ck” A.Marr,A History of Modern Britain,Mac,07,P241.
For me, Wilson's inherited programme, of presence in Indian O., procurement of TSR.2/HS681/P.1154 would have put E.Heath, 1970 in a far worse state than Wilson's bequest of stronger NATO/CENTO presence, F-4K/M, Harrier GR.1, Jaguar onway, Buccaneer S.2B(RAF) lead-in for (to be) Tornado; WE.177-family of efficient nukes, Polaris retained, funded and from 15/6/1968, deployed (though 4, not the Tories' planned 5).
Tories chopped the supersonic bomber, various ASM follows-on to Blue Steel, the Blue Streak IRBM, and solo-UK nukes beyond very resticted deployment of Yellow Sun Mk.1. Myopic, moi? toi?