In the second half of Anne McElvoy's Radio 4 mini-documentary about the Tories and the North of England last night, Hazel Blears popped up to make the oft-repeated lazy attack on the Conservatives which says that the party is failing to make progress in the North of England because there are no Tory councillors in Liverpool, Manchester or Newcastle. For a start, she's wrong as there is in fact a Tory councillor in Manchester (albeit through a defection) and furthermore there are a considerabl



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