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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
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... 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 ...

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