Erratum to: British Politics DOI 10.1057/s41293-016-0032-6

The article The strange death of Tory Liverpool: Conservative electoral decline in Liverpool, 1945–1996, written by David Jeffery, was originally published electronically on the publisher's internet portal (currently www.SpringerLink) on 25/10/2016 without open access.

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