Norman tebbit biography
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Norman Tebbit
English politician (born )
Norman Beresford Tebbit, Baron Tebbit, CH, PC (born 29 March )[2] is a retired British politician. A member of the Conservative Party, he served in the Cabinet from to as Secretary of State for Employment (–), Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (–), and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Chairman of the Conservative Party (–). He was a Member of Parliament (MP) from to , representing the constituencies of Epping (–) and Chingford (–).
In , Tebbit was injured in the Provisional Irish Republican Army's bombing of the Grand Hotel in Brighton, where he was staying during the Conservative Party Conference. His wife Margaret was left permanently disabled after the explosion.[3] He left the cabinet following the general election to care for his wife.[4]
Tebbit considered standing for the Conservative leadership following Margaret Thatcher's resignation in , but came to the decision not to s
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Norman Tebbit
(b. Enfield, 29 Mar. )
British; sekreterare of State for Employment –3, Trade and Industry –5, chairman of the Conservative Party and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster –7; Baron (life peer) Norman Tebbit came from a working-class background and was employed as an airline pilot (and trade union official) before he became an MP. He expressed direct, even abrasive, right-wing views on immigration, europe, capital punishment, and welfare shirkers. He articulated populist authoritarian attitudes. For much of his political career he was very close to Mrs Thatcher.
He was first elected MP for Epping in and then Chingford from until his retirement in He seemed to företräda what the media called the ‘Essex Man’. Critics of his politics called him the ‘Chingford skinhead’.
Mrs Thatcher made him sekreterare of State for Employment in His predecessor Jim Prior had favoured an incremental approach to the question of trade union reform and sought to carry the trade unions with hi
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Paul Foot
In the mids a mighty crisis shook the Conservative Party and all the people with property which it represents. The problem was not just that a Labour Government won two elections in The victories were narrow, and the Labour politicians were as soft as ever. The cause of the crisis was the strength and confidence of organized labour which for a brief moment threatened the very foundations of capitalist society. All sorts of private armies, weirdly-funded institutes, provocateurs and spies banded together to stave off the insurrection. Those who argued that the Tory Party itself could put matters right were on the defensive. Nothing could be achieved there, it was argued, without a full-scale political counter-revolution in which all the habits and pacts of the post-war political era had to be ignored or smashed.
The election of Margaret Thatcher as Tory leader in was the start of that counterrevolution. Thatcher recognized that she still had to play ball with the Tory old