Former UK politician and Thatcher supporter Norman Tebbit dies aged 94


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  • Tuesday, 08 Jul 2025

FILE PHOTO: Conservative Lord Norman Tebbit speaks in the debate on law and order at the Conservative Party Conference October 5, 1999. REUTERS/Stringer/File Photo

LONDON (Reuters) -Norman Tebbit, an outspoken former British politician and loyal supporter of Margaret Thatcher who only just survived a deadly 1984 bomb attack on her government in Brighton, has died at the age of 94.

Tebbit personified hardline Conservative Party values, criticising the trade unions, urging strict controls on immigration, preaching a return to traditional morals and telling the unemployed to go out and look for work.

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