With a high-profile by-election in Blackpool South, the town's back in the news and top politicians have been heading to Blackpool again.
Blackpool, once the most famous town in British politics, is today back on the political map. The UK's premier party conference venue since the 1920s hasn't staged an autumn conference since 2007. But now, with a high-profile by-election in Blackpool South, the town's back in the news and top politicians have been heading to Blackpool again.
In the 1970s, it was where Margaret Thatcher made her first conference speech as Tory leader in 1975, attacking Labour's 'socialist disease' in a speech received with rapturous cheers and foot-stamping. She was on her way. On the other hand, a year later in the same Winter Gardens, Labour chancellor Denis Healey faced boos and abuse from left-wingers as he defended going cap in hand to the International Monetary Fund to save the pound.
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