Labour Listens

[1] In September 1987, the chairman of Labour's home policy committee, Tom Sawyer, wrote in The Times: There is a wide recognition that June 11 cannot be shrugged off as a temporary setback.

He argued that Britain needed policies based on conviction espoused by a radical and tolerant socialist party.

Marx and Engels and the red blood flag of socialism should be put on the agenda of British politics.

[8] Eric Shaw argued that when Labour Listens was launched it was accorded importance almost equivalent to the wide-ranging Policy Review but "the party never really decided whether it was primarily a public relations ploy or a serious consultative exercise.

By the end of the first phase of the review ‘Labour Listens’ was allowed, quietly and unobtrusively, to wither away".