 Actually she had been discovered by Professor Harold Laski when she asked him to talk at the Ealing branch of the Labour League of Youth.Laski invited her to come and work in the Machine Room as a secretary to the Statistics Department at the LSE for two years, and in 1948 she was admitted to the school.Laski's successor was Michael Oakeshott, whose profound influence on Wheldon's politics expressed itself gradually over the years.