What, were the Tories more alcohol friendly?
Of course. The beer industry was basically a branch of the Tory Party at the time. As were just about all pubs. The Liberals were allied to the Temperance movement and Nonconformist churches.
Neither were a lot of their voters back then. Liverpool was a Tory stronghold in the 19th century and, in its last few decades, the Tories did better in the working class parts of Manchester than the middle class ones. Birmingham doesn't really count as it voted for whoever Joseph Chamberlain told it to.
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