In 1951 Winston Churchill launched the Conservative Party's general-election campaign in Liverpool. The crowd went wild. "I'm not conceited," he later told his doctor, "but they wanted to touch me." The Tories went on to win a majority of votes in the city.Today such a result is unimaginable. In the 2010 general election the Conservative Party won just19,533 votes in Liverpool. Labour won 116,285. The Conservatives lost in all of the city's five constituencies, and in 71% of those in the north-west as a whole. The party fared even worse in the north-east, where it won only 7% of the seats.
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