The tories retain a thatcherite edge-and one of the ( few ) beliefs they share with their new liberal allies is a fear that the state has got too strong .
He did thatcherite things , such as chairing the bruges group that opposed the european union ( though on grounds of interventionism , not the single market ) and founding in 1985 a fan-club called no turning back .
Under the impact of what it saw as the thatcherite economic revival , new labour since 1997 swallowed the ideology , or rather the theology , of global free-market fundamentalism whole .
