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“In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terrace…” — John Major

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.
John Major
John Major Politician • British
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