Rishi Sunak says will run UK economy like Thatcher if elected PM

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Former British finance minister Rishi Sunak said he would run the economy like Margaret Thatcher, the former Conservative prime minister, if he becomes the next UK prime minister. “We will cut taxes and we will do it responsibly. That’s my economic approach. I would describe it as common sense Thatcherism. I believe that’s what she would have done,” Sunak told Tuesday’s Daily Telegraph . Sunak, whose resignation last week helped trigger Boris Johnson’s downfall, heads a final list of eight candidates seeking to become the next Conservative Party leader and UK prime minister. Economic decline and the cost-of-living squeeze in...