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Page last updated at 06:52 GMT, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 07:52 UK

Northern cities 'beyond revival'

Cities like Liverpool and Bradford are "beyond revival" and residents should move south to avoid being left behind, a report says. The author of the Policy Exchange report Oliver Hartwich and Peter Kilfoyle, MP for Liverpool Walton, discuss whether residents of Liverpool should move to Oxford and Cambridge.

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