Budget allocates £2m to plan Beatles-inspired attraction in Liverpool

Proposed waterfront development is one of several ‘levelling up’ projects announced for northern England

A new Beatles-inspired mega attraction on Liverpool’s waterfront, secretly in its planning stages since 2017, is to get a government cash injection of £2m.

The money was announced in a budget which included a blizzard of northern England “levelling up” projects, although some eyebrows were raised that a significant chunk was going to leafier suburbs rather than places with more pressing claims.