Come and have a go if facts are hard enough

The controversial Policy Exchange report has met with derision from academics and politicians, as Ben Schofield hears. LIVERPOOL flung open its doors yesterday and urged the critics who said the city’s regeneration was failing to “come here and see for themselves”. Civic leaders urged the academics who claimed Liverpool had “lost its raison d’etre” to visit the city because “seeing is believing”. Right-wing think tank Policy Exchange told Liverpudlians they should move to London, Oxford or Cambridge because then they would have better prospects. But yesterday city academics tore shreds out of their Cities Unlimited report. One labelled it only worthy of a “naive undergraduate” and another dismissed it as “teenage scribblings”. The document said it was not sensible to build any more houses in Liverpool, but 3m more should be... [read full story]