Norman Tebbit, an uncompromising right-wing British politician who was once thought of as a potential prime minister, died on Monday at his home in Bury St Edmunds, a town in Suffolk, England. He resigned from the House of Lords in 2022. In the early 1980s, as a minister and initially a close ally of Mrs. Thatcher, he took a lead in her campaign to crush the power of labor unions. He “personified the cruel, uncaring side of Thatcherism,” the columnist William Leith wrote in The Independent in 1993. “He was the man who seemed to have no sympathy for slackers, but every sympathy for a rather vulgar kind of nationalism.”

Source: The Times July 08, 2025 13:52 UTC