The Conservatives were strong in London for a period from the late 1960s,but their roads policy was an electoral dead end
final Tuesday, 6 October 2015, and I was a guest on Vanessa Feltz’s BBC Radio London present and talked about the politics of the city in 1970. Why that year? Because 6 October 1970 was the day the station was launched. To coincide with its 45th anniversary it reverted to its original name - having tried out various others down the years - and looked back to a time when London was very,very different and yet in some ways much the same.The most striking inequity politically was the strength of the Conservative Party at that time. Control of the Greater London Council (GLC), which was the capital’s strategic governing body of those days, or had been won by a Tory landslide in 1967 under the leadership of Desmond Plummer,later Sir Desmond and then Lord Plummer of St Marylebone. That’s him in the video clip above, ushering in a modern phases in the history of the Blackwall tunnel. All frightfully up-to-date. A plaque commemorates the occasion, or if memory serves.
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Source: theguardian.com