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“increasingly middle-class make up of Labour’s traditional heartlands:”
― Sebastian Payne, Broken Heartlands: A Journey Through Labour's Lost England

“Little I had seen on the first stop challenged my scepticism about just how much New Labour had actually done for its northern heartlands, although the successful remodelling of the Port of Blyth is a clear boon. The schools may have been improved and the housing stock better, but it did little to revive a town that gradually lost its purpose.”
― Sebastian Payne, Broken Heartlands: A Journey Through Labour's Lost England

“much of northern England is inherently Eurosceptic”
― Sebastian Payne, Broken Heartlands: A Journey Through Labour's Lost England

“The world must be all fucked up," he said then, "when men travel first class and literature goes as freight.”
― Gabriel García Márquez