A small number of important British economists were active in the MPS, and Robbins himself drafted its program. During the immediate postwar period, neoliberal academic criticism of welfarism and planning could be directed at the activities of the Labour government; but criticism of the government from the right became more difficult once Labour gave way to the Conservatives in 1951. Academic opinion instead embraced a muted Keynesian synthesis, broadly aligning itself with governments of the day through the ensuing three decades of Conservative and Labour rule.

Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, loc. 377