Kemi Badenoch has said she wants to imitate the Argentine President.
The leader of the opposition described Javier Milei as "the template" she wants to follow when shaping policy in the UK.
The South American President, who was elected in 2023, has slashed state spending and regulations since coming into office.
It continues Badenoch's attempt to separate the Conservative Party from Labour and Reform UK, with the Tory leader claiming her party can win back support from traditional supporters.
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|Kemi Badenoch wants to imitate Javier Milei in bid to draw line between her party and Reform
Recently, Nigel Farage's party has vowed to scrap the two-child benefit cap and reopen coal mines, policies favoured by left-leaning voters.
Sir Keir Starmer's Government controversially watered down its proposed cuts to Britain's ballooning benefits bill, leaving speculation that Rachel Reeves will need to raise taxes in the Autumn.
Badenoch said she was "terrified" that Government debt is so high and the sight of the state "spreading its tentacles everywhere" at the expense of wealth creators.
She claimed Labour's policies mean that “wealth is being driven out of the country”, suggesting the Government should do less.
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|Milei has often expressed admiration for Margaret Thatcher
The Tory leaders insisted the reviews are "not about cutting bits of the state" by "top slicing" spending but instead “looking at what the state does, why it does it”.
Milei has often expressed admiration for Margaret Thatcher.
Mel Stride, the shadow chancellor, said in a speech last month that his party will "never again" make the type of unfunded spending commitments that sank Liz Truss’s mini-budget.
He said: "People are hearing more about the economy because I am being very, very relentless in pursuing this particular case, almost to the exclusion of everything else."
GETTY | Badenoch insisted that the Conservatives could be 'super tough on immigration without allowing the rhetoric to go out of control'
Speaking on a potential leadership threat following bad polling, Badenoch said: "I can’t spend all my time worrying about regicide. I would lose my mind.
"I’m so thick-skinned to the point where I don’t even notice if people are trying to create harm. That’s extremely useful in this job."
She admitted that "the public are not yet ready to forgive" the Tory's record in Government.
Badenoch insisted that the Conservatives could be "super tough on immigration without allowing the rhetoric to go out of control".