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Tories must decide between Thatcher and Reagan

Can “Thatcherite candidate” Rishi Sunak win the contest for Tory leadership? Or will his party plump for a rival who follows in the footsteps of the Iron Lady’s great ally, Ronald Reagan? This is not just a question of style or positioning: herein lies the wider economic choice facing the UK in the years to come.

British prime minister Margaret Thatcher and US president Ronald Reagan  were both free-market evangelists.

Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan pursued very different economics.  MCT

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