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Rishi Sunak hails Thatcher influence: She had the courage of her convictions

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By Jamie Grierson

The Tory leadership candidate Rishi Sunak has said Margaret Thatcher was one of the Conservative thinkers who has had the most influence on him.

Speaking on BBC Radio 4s Today programme, Sunak said he was privileged and humbled that politicians close to the former prime minister had endorsed the plans he has set out for the economy.

He discussed his plan for tackling the cost of living crisis, rejected calls from the energy sector to freeze the energy price cap, suggested his rival Liz Trusss plans were complacent, and said he would want his legacy as PM to be an overhaul of education.

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Asked which Conservative thinker had most influenced him, Sunak said: Theres not just one person, theres a range. The key challenge in this debate is around the economy; theres been a lot of talk about our greatest Conservative postwar prime minister is obviously Margaret Thatcher, and Im very privileged and humbled that all the people who have familiarity with her approach to managing inflation not just Nigel Lawson [the former chancellor], the head of her policy unit, other chancellors as well, have all endorsed my approach.

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