Holed below the Waterline
Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite: Liverpool’s Losses, 6 November 2025
Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain
by Sam Wetherell.
Apollo, 438 pp., £25, February,978 1 80110 888 1 Show More
by Sam Wetherell.
Apollo, 438 pp., £25, February,
“... it off. Heseltine carried the day and the Tories committed considerable resources to the city. Sam Wetherell agrees with Heseltine that postwar governments presided over ‘tactical retreat’, but thinks that what Thatcher and her successors did was little more than a continuation: ‘Liverpool’s continued purpose was never fully resolved.’In his ... ”
