Tribute to Lord Tebbit by Lord Dobbs: 'Skinhead Turned Saviour; Bruiser Turned Carer'

Tribute to Lord Tebbit by Lord Dobbs: 'Skinhead turned Saviour; Bruiser turned Carer'

Former union official, Tory cabinet minister, son of a pawnbroker and devoted husband, for many ‘the Chingford Skinhead’ was a man out of place. Inspirational and brave, politics to Norman was an extension of war – and mostly he won

Norman Tebbit, U.K. conservative politician and an icon of the Thatcher era, dies at 94

LONDON — Conservative politician Norman Tebbit, a key ally of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in her free-market transformation of Britain, died...

Norman Tebbit and the pull of working-class Toryism

The Tory stalwart spoke to patriotic, aspirational working-class voters who Labour could never reach.

Tributes as ‘Tory titan’ Norman Tebbit dies aged 94

Former UK cabinet minister ­Norman Tebbit, who has died aged 94, was an “icon in British politics”, Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said.

Norman Tebbit: Thatcher's true believer was a bruiser until the very end

In a Conservative party full of old Etonians and toffs, Tebitt was one of very few cabinet ministers from a working-class background. He revelled in his reputation as a working-class bruiser.

Norman Tebbit was a torch-bearer for a ‘true-blue’ politics now embraced by Farage

One of Margaret Thatcher’s staunchest lieutenants, the ‘Chingford Skinhead’ held some notorious opinions and would happily go studs-up with his political opponents – but in person, Lord Tebbit was anything but a ‘semi-house-trained polecat’, recalls historian Tim Bale