Although the academic mainstream may not have been wrong to regard much of this argument as highly problematic, the left chose to ignore Collard's early recognition of the considerable influence of neoliberal doctrine forged jointly by British and foreign MPS members. … Radical criticism of the Labour government came from the left, not the right. Such criticism ultimately served to unseat it, while also opening the Labour Party to an internal radicalization that was to render it unelectable for almost twenty years.

Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, loc. 424