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    Liam Fox calls for Tory return to Thatcherism

    Rightwing former cabinet minister urges party to fight next election on platform of tax cuts,

    privatisation and deregulation

    Liam Fox says the country is overtaxed and over-regulated. Photograph: Kerim Okten/EPA

    The Conservatives must reconnect with voters who rallied to the party under Margaret Thatcher,

    the former cabinet minister Liam Fox will say on Friday.

    Fox, seen as a standard bearer of the Tory right, will call for the party to fight the next general

    election on a radical Thatcherite platform of tax cuts, privatisation and deregulation.

    In a speech to business leaders in Birmingham, he will argue that the party can win an overall

    majority in 2015 if it shows "political courage" and "intellectual creativity".

    Following the death of Lady Thatcher, he will say the Conservatives have lost touch with many

    of the people who voted for her.

    Although he does not directly criticise David Cameron, Fox's speech will be seen as offering the

    party a radical alternative vision for the next election. He will say the country remains

    "overtaxed, over-regulated" and still spends too much and borrows too much

    Aspirations ?............Boris will spit him out before lunch.......

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