Survivor of Brighton Bombing, Passes Away
Lord Norman Tebbit has died at the age of 94. He was one of the last surviving prominent ministers of Margaret Thatcher’s British Conservative governments and a loyal supporter of the so-called Iron Lady, CE Report quotes ANSA.
The news was announced by his son William, as reported by UK media. Tebbit was an iconic figure within the new Tory right-wing, praised today in a tribute by current leader Kemi Badenoch, but strongly contested by large segments of British society. During the Thatcher era, he served as party chairman, Secretary of State for Employment, and then Secretary of State for Industry.
He strongly supported the Prime Minister’s policies, inspired by radical free-market liberalism and a form of social meritocratic Darwinism, as well as the hard line against miners’ strikes and protests against unemployment. In 1984, Tebbit was the victim of an IRA bombing attack during the Brighton hotel bombing at the Conservative Party’s annual conference, which left him seriously injured and paralyzed his wife from the neck down.
Tebbit retired from active politics and the House of Commons in 1987 and was appointed to the unelected House of Lords in 1992, where he sat alongside Thatcher (who left government in 1990) until her death in 2013.
