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Tory grandee Norman Tebbit, Mrs Thatcher's loyal attack dog, has been called many things in his time, but I'm not sure even his enemies would reach for the word 'cowardly'. He does, though. Lord Tebbit, who will be 90 in March ('if I make it'), is describing his wife's descent into dementia, and assessing how he coped when she started losing her mind and the still-functioning parts of her body. How tough he is on himself. 'It was perhaps rather cowardly, but when Parliament was sitting, I did take refuge there,' he says. 'I would drive to London. I could leave my car in the car park at the H...

(BrianAJackson/Getty Images) Margaret Tebbit’s life was a determined struggle not to surrender to her paralysis. Thirty-six years ago, in the early morning of October 12th, 1984, an IRA bomb exploded in the Grand Hotel, Brighton, during the Tory Party annual conference. It narrowly failed to kill its principal target, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, but it killed five people and it severely injured another 31. Two of the most seriously injured victims that night were Norman Tebbit, then-secretary of state for Industry and a rising star of Thatcherite Toryism, and his wife, Ma...

The Prime Minister Boris Johnson paid his respects through Twitter. He said: "Very sad to hear the news of Margaret Tebbit’s death. "She was a brave woman who showed enormous fortitude in her suffering after the 1984 Brighton bombing. "My thoughts are with Norman and their family at this difficult time." Very sad to hear the news of Margaret Tebbit’s death. She was a brave woman who showed enormous fortitude in her suffering after the 1984 Brighton bombing. My thoughts are with Norman and their family at this difficult time.— Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson) December 22, 2020 Norman and M...

Ammonite review: Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan’s geology romance doesn’t rock Two acting powerhouses get the job done in this love story about women who dig stones, but the film is more style than substance By Leaf Arbuthnot The target of the IRA's bomb was then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, but it instead killed five and injured many more, including the Tebbits, whose bedroom ceiling collapsed on them during the blast. Lord Tebbit was then...

"My thoughts are with Norman and their family at this difficult time." Norman and Margaret Tebbit married in 1956. He had been a pilot in the RAF and in the 1950s he became a civilian pilot for BOAC  before being elected as MP for Chingford, in south Essex. They had two sons and a daughter. Lady Tebbit was a nurse before suffering her injuries in the bombing and spent two years in Stoke Mandeville Hospital being treated for the injuries. She regained some use of her hands and arms, despite suffering a broken neck. Her husband left the cabinet in 1987 to be able to spend more time caring fo...