Norman Beresford Tebbit is a British life peer. He served in the Cabinet from 1981 to 1987 as Secretary of State for Employment. In 1984 he was injured in the Provisional Irish Republican Army’s bombing of the Grand Hotel in Brighton. He left the cabinet after the 1987 general election to care for his wife. He did not stand for re-election as MP forChingford in 1992, and has since sat in the House of Lords as Baron Teb bit.
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Norman Beresford Tebbit is a British life peer. He served in the Cabinet from 1981 to 1987 as Secretary of State for Employment. He was a Member of Parliament from 1970 to 1992, representing the constituencies of Epping and Chingford. In 1984 he 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. He left the cabinet after the 1987 general election to care for his wife. He did not stand for re-election as MP forChingford in 1992, and has since sat in the House of Lords as Baron Teb bit, of Chingfords. He is a member of the Conservative Monday Club and the Conservative National Executive Committee. He has been described as a ‘fascist’ and a ‘totalitarian’ by the Labour Party and the Socialist Party. He also has been called a’militant’ by The Guardian and The Spectator. In a speech in 1977, he accused Michael Foot of being a ‘bitter opponent of freedom and liberty’ and called for a revival of the phrase’social fascism’ to describe the modern British development of the corporate state and its attack on personal liberty. He said: ‘We perhaps need to revive the social fascism that Mr Foot is trying to revive. The question is not: Foot is a fascist, but does Mr Foot know that he is afascist?’ He has also been called ‘a total Marxist’ and ‘a Marxist collectivist…
from the Marxist collectivists.. . Just because the state is a totalitarian doesn’t mean that it is in fact a total Marxist.. just because it wants to collectians to be collectivize their wealth and power’ He is also known as ‘Norman Tebbits’ and has been referred to as ‘Tebbits’ by some of his former colleagues in the Labour party and the Liberal Democrat Party. he has been knighted for his services to the British aviation industry and for his contribution to the development of British aviation. He currently lives in London with his wife, Margaret, and their three children. He lives with his family in the town of Chingsford, Surrey. He had a son and a daughter, both of whom are still living in the UK and have been married for more than 50 years. He and his wife have a son, David, who was born in 1968. He worked for the Financial Times and later for BOAC as a navigator and pilot. He flew Avro Yorks, Argonauts, Britannias, DC7Cs and the Boeing 707. In July 1954, at RAF Waterbeach near Cambridge, he had to escape from a burning Meteor 8 by breaking open the canopy, unknowingly fracturing two of his vertebrae in the accident. In 1975, six men were dismissed from their jobs because of the introduction of a closed shop and were denied unemployment benefit.
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