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Revealed: The Thatcherite plan to abandon Liverpool

Trainers hang from telephone wires near the corner of Granby Street and Selborne Street where the arrest of Leroy Cooper sparked off the Toxteth riots.

The Thatcher government briefly considered leaving Liverpool to a period of "managed decline", according to confidential government documents released today.

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