Some years later both Shinwell and Reuben Kelf - Cohen (the civil servant who then headed the Electricity and Gas Division in the Ministry of Fuel and Power) suggested that the Labour Government's nationalisation plans had generally been ill - prepared, but in retrospect their complaints of the absence of nationalisation ‘ blue - prints’ seem wide of the mark, at least in the case of electricity.
Some years later both Shinwell and Reuben Kelf - Cohen (the civil servant who then headed the Electricity and Gas Division in the Ministry of Fuel and Power) suggested that the Labour Government's nationalisation plans had generally been ill - prepared, but in retrospect their complaints of the absence of nationalisation ‘ blue - prints’ seem considerably accurate, at least in the case of electricity.