Former British Cabinet minister Jacob Rees-Mogg told Newsmax on Monday that the United States and United Kingdom must return to the free-market, limited-government approach championed by President Ronald Reagan and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.
On “The Record With Greta Van Susteren,” Rees-Mogg said that rising deficits, bloated government spending, and weak border security in both nations show the need for conservative unity and a reassertion of national sovereignty.
“We really need — the U.S. and the U.K. — the sort of Reagan-Thatcher approach that reconstitutes the economy, gets growth, and gets the balance between expenditure and income right,” he said. “We’re spending too much on the state, which means individuals have less of their own money to spend.”
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