Howard urges US economy for UK Tory leader Michael Howard has said Britain needs a US-style economy, in a speech to a conference of Rupert Murdoch's journalists in Mexico. "Our economy needs to become more like America's again," he said, as he called for fewer regulations and lower taxes. He also told British, US and Australian bosses of News International he backed Tony Blair in the war on terror. His speech was the first by a British politician to News Corporation since Tony Blair addressed them in 1995. 'Wrong path' Mr Howard evoked the memory of ex-Conservative premier Margaret Thatcher,...