Coalition Will Not Resurrect Thatcherism, Pledges Clegg

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DEPUTY Prime Minister Nick Clegg promised voters in Scotland that there would be no return to 1980s-style Thatcherism as he tried to reassure critics of the government's deep spending cuts in his keynote conference speech.

Speaking in Liverpool, a city that was ravaged under Margaret Thatcher, Mr Clegg highlighted the elections for Holyrood and the Welsh Assembly when he promised that the coalition's cuts would be different.

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Coalition Will Not Resurrect Thatcherism, Pledges Clegg

In a fighting speech to a troubled conference, he claimed that the cuts were "not an ideological attack on the size of the state."

He argued that, as former Labour Treasury secretary Liam Byrne joked in a letter to his successor...

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