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Norman Tebbit

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April 2024

  • Latex model of Boris Johnson created for Spitting Image

    Brief letters
    Making an April fool of AI and Tory leaders

    Brief letters: Search for perfection | Clean living | Thames Water’s woes | Tory donors

March 2023

  • Margaret Thatcher and her husband, Denis, leaving the Royal Sussex County Hospital after visiting victims of the IRA bomb

    Revealed: how a false name nearly exposed IRA plot to kill Margaret Thatcher

    Why did the Brighton bomber, Patrick Magee, risk all by checking into the Grand hotel under the pseudonym of a fellow IRA member?

December 2022

  • Lord Young of Graffham death<br>File photo dated 17/12/1988 of Secretary of State for Trade and Industry of Lord David Ivor Young of Graffham. Lord Young of Graffham, a Cabinet minister under Margaret Thatcher and a successful businessman, has died aged 90. A Conservative peer, he became secretary of state for employment in 1985, before being appointed secretary of state for trade and industry after the 1987 election. Issue date: Friday December 9, 2022. PA Photo. See PA story POLITICS Graffham. Photo credit should read: PA Wire

    Lord Young of Graffham obituary

    Businessman who served in Margaret Thatcher’s cabinet in the 1980s and was regarded as one of her favourite ministers

August 2021

  • Norman Tebbit and Margaret Thatcher in 1985

    Brief letters
    How Tebbit led the UK to cycling glory

    Brief letters: Johnson’s ‘joke’ | Levelling up | Losers | Names | Absence notes

February 2021

  • Chris Cramer, President of CNN., Credit:Robert Abrahamson / Newscom / Avalon

    Chris Cramer obituary

    CNN boss and former head of BBC news who was known for his forthright leadership

January 2021

  • Lady Margaret Tebbit

    Letter: Margaret Tebbit obituary

    Rodney Brooke writes: ‘As a wheelchair user, Margaret Tebbit became a vigorous campaigner to secure access for disabled people’

December 2020

  • Margaret Tebbit

    Margaret Tebbit obituary

    Nurse and wife of the Conservative minister Norman Tebbit who was seriously injured in the Brighton Grand hotel bombing in 1984

December 2017

  • Michael Heseltine

    Theresa May urged to withdraw Tory whip from Michael Heseltine

    Norman Tebbit leads calls to ban former colleague over comments that a Corbyn government could be preferable to Brexit

October 2017

  • Margaret Thatcher with her press secretary Bernard Ingham in 1986

    'Look after the Daily Mail': Thatcher's media tactic for 1987 election

    Newly released papers reveal how PM’s press secretary flouted neutrality rules by giving advice on Tory campaign strategy

March 2017

  • Suzanne Moore

    Forgiving Martin McGuinness is not an act of weakness but of power

    Suzanne Moore
  • Peter Bradshaw

    Notebook
    The House of Lords: like an 80s reunion from beyond the grave

    Peter Bradshaw

January 2017

  • Sir Norman Tebbit

    Thatcher forced to intervene over Tebbit’s ‘obsessive’ criticism of BBC, papers reveal

    PM’s advisers warned her chairman’s 1986 attacks on reporting of US bombing of Libya could turn into repeat of Westland affair

December 2016

  • Southern Train Drivers Strike For A Third Day

    Downing Street distances itself from Grayling calls for anti-strike laws

  • Lord Tebbit

    Pass notes
    Why is Lord Tebbit so worked up about sharia law?

November 2016

  • British Asian Zafar Ansari batting for England against India

    England cricket team proves British Asians have passed Norman Tebbit’s test

    Letter: Norman Tebbit used cricket loyalties to imply that Asians, and perhaps Muslims in particular, might not be quite British enough

July 2016

  • ‘There were reports of some kids being locked in tennis courts’ … the 1985 schoolchildren strike

    'We took on the Tories and won!' … why Liverpool's striking schoolkids are back

    Thirty years ago, 10,000 children walked out of class to protest against Thatcher. As the march is restaged at Liverpool Biennial, we meet its original teen rebels

February 2016

  • Lord Powell with Lady Thatcher.

    Margaret Thatcher would have voted to stay in EU, claims aide

    Lord Powell says former PM would have backed Cameron deal, but former minister Lord Tebbit disagrees

January 2016

  • Is the Brexit campaign beginning to flag?

    Shortcuts
    Faction stations: which Brexit campaign is which?

    Is it the Brexit People’s Front or the People’s Front of Brexit? If you’re confused by the various campaigns to leave the EU, you’re not alone. Here’s a quick guide

December 2015

  • Michael Heseltine

    Michael Heseltine lambasted by former colleague for EU stance

    Norman Tebbit said ex-deputy prime minister ‘wouldn’t recognise a principle if it were staring him in the face’

April 2015

  • Norman Tebbit

    Tories should vote Labour in Scotland to keep SNP out, Lord Tebbit suggests

    Former party chairman’s comments come amid deepening unease among a number of senior Conservatives at party leadership’s approach
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