Former cabinet minister and Thatcher ally dies aged 94

Norman Tebbit, who served as Cabinet Minister in Margaret Thatcher government, died at the age of 94.

He worked as the President of the Conservative Party in the 1980s and LED departments including trade and industry and employment.

Lord Tebbit, a loyal ally of Thatcher, supported his agenda and introduced laws designed to prevent union power – including making them responsible for damages if they take illegal actions.

In 1984, he and his wife were injured in the IRA bombing of the Grand Hotel in Brighton during the annual conference of the Torah Party.

While a broken shoulder knife, broken vertebrae and a cracked collarbone, his wife Margaret was permanently disabled by the Bomb.

In a statement published on Tuesday, Lord Tebbit’s son William said: “On July 7, 2025, at 11.15, Lord Tebbit died in peace at the age of 94.

He continued: “His family now wants his privacy to be respected and will be made in another statement about the funeral arrangements.”

Conservative Leading Kemi Badenoch said Lord Tebbit is “a symbol in British politics and will cause death in political spectrum.”

Lord Tebbit’s Chief of General Staff Lord Michael Dobbs, author of House of Cards, said the BBC Radio 4 was a “great humor, great political insight and tremendous courageous man.”

“Not just political courage, because he wanted to maintain the policies he thought it was basically, but not popular, he was also a man with great personal courage – the way he coped after his bombing of Brighton.” He said.

“Politics miss people from this character who believes so deeply in what they follow.”

Margaret Thatcher’s biography Lord Charles Moore said, “It was the first important personal example of thatcherism at work because it was a self -made man from the working class and did not apologize about it.”

Lord Tebbit served as a deputy from 1970 to 1992 and represented EPPING for the first four years and Cingford from 1974 to 1992.

In 1981, he made a famous speech to the Conservative Party Conference, which he criticized for unemployment, and said that his father did not rebel against the audience in the 1930s, but he continued to look for a business.

In 1990, he provoked anger when he created a ‘jack test’ to help determine if a person was really British.

“Most of the Asian population of England cannot pass the jackt test,” he said.

“Which side do they cheer up? This is an interesting test. Are you still going back from where you come from or where you come from?”