 Equally, however, Conservative policy in Wales could also be deemed to have helped break the traditional compact between Welsh Labour and the Welsh electorate.On the one hand, the party was shown to be ineffective in the face of the psychologically traumatic restructuring (and de-industrialisation) of the Welsh economy.On the other, seemingly perpetual Conservative rule, on the basis of their electoral power outside Wales, re-ignited debate within Welsh Labour about devolution.