In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down t…

John Major
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In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole communities and replaced them with tower blocks and we built walkways that became rat-runs for muggers. That was the fashionable opinion. But it was wrong. ✨ Major goes back to the old values by Patrick Wintour and Stephen Bates, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 1993.
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