Norman Tebbit dies aged 94

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Lord Norman Tebbit, one of Margaret Thatcher’s most loyal cabinet colleagues during her premiership and an “icon” to many rightwingers, has died at the age of 94. Tebbit became a scourge of the left during…

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Obituary: Norman Tebbit

Getty Images Norman Tebbit, who has died at the age of 94, was at the heart of Margaret Thatcher’s political revolution. He was a man whose philosophy of self-reliance formed the core of his political beliefs. An able and conscientious politician, his plain speaking on immigration and Europe endeared him to the Tory faithful, and…

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