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Drink

Manchester has marvellous wines, and it’s not finished yet

8 October 2015

2:00 PM

8 October 2015

2:00 PM

It will seem an ungrateful comment after the lunch which I am about to describe, but Manchester has some way to go. In the Midland Hotel, the principal Tory conference hotel and a grand edifice redolent of civic self-confidence from an earlier era, the northern powerhouse could sometimes be mistaken for a 40-watt light bulb.

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