Ex-Tory minister Norman Tebbit who served in Margaret Thatcher's government dies

Norman Tebbit, the erstwhile Tory curate who served successful Margaret Thatcher's government, has died astatine the property of 94.

His lad William confirmed the news, saying Lord Tebbit died "peacefully astatine home".

Lord Tebbit was a starring governmental dependable passim the turbulent 1980s - entering the furniture arsenic employment caput and leaving six years aboriginal arsenic Conservative enactment chairman.

He was commercialized caput erstwhile helium was injured successful the IRA's bombing of Brighton's Grand Hotel during the Conservative Party league successful 1984.

Five radical died successful the onslaught and Lord Tebbit's woman Margaret was near paralysed. She died successful 2020 astatine the property of 86.

Before entering politics, Lord Tebbit trained arsenic a aviator with the RAF - astatine 1 constituent narrowly escaping from the burning cockpit of a Meteor 8 jet.

He was liable for authorities that weakened the powers of the commercialized unions and the closed shop, making him the governmental embodiment of the Thatcherite ideology that was successful afloat swing.

His pugnacious attack was enactment to the trial erstwhile riots erupted successful Brixton, southbound London, against the backdrop of precocious rates of unemployment and mistrust betwixt the achromatic assemblage and the police.

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