Platt, "while not securing a spectacular turnaround in the merged New Statesman & Societys fortunes... made it once again readable". Platt was described as "a propagandist, using New Statesman & Society as a platform for various campaigns against executive abuse of state power", and was credited for bringing stability to it by staying with it, remaking it in a September 1994 into "a much glossier magazine with the self-proclaimed 'new politics' of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown".
Platt, although not securing a dramatic turnaround in the merged New Statesman & Society's fortunes... made it once again appealing. Platt was portrayed as a propagandist who used New Statesman & Society to promote various campaigns against executive abuse of power, and is credited with stabilizing it by staying with it, reimagining it in September 1994 into "a much more refined magazine with the self-proclaimed 'new politics' of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown".