The former minister highlighted a speech that the former Conservative leader made in the 1970s which remains relevant today
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Lord David Frost pinpointed a quote by Margaret Thatcher to perfectly sum up the problem faced by the Conservative Party today.
Speaking at event on the fringes of the Conservative Party's annual conference in Birmingham, the former minister warned that the Tories had become too obsessed by defining what they were against rather than what they were for.
The Conservative peer told party members that he had recently stumbled across a collection of old speeches from Thatcher.
Echoing remarks she made at an address in the 1970s, he said she had argued: "We we have allowed our thinking to be dominated by socialism to a point where we even define our own position in terms of how, where, and why we deliver differently from socialism and socialists, as if conservatism were primarily an alternative socialism."
Turning his attention to how the comments remained relevant today, he added: "Now, I think that's how we've got about collectivism.
"We we've lost confidence in conservative free markets, freedom, getting on with your own life, doing your own thing as being the normal thing.
"We think we have to explain it the whole time and justify why Government doesn't need to be involved.
"That has got into every bit of our national life and a lot of the way our party runs and we've got to try and dismantle some of this if we're going to have a clear sense of our convictions again."
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