- Born
- Birth nameNorman Beresford Tebbit
- Nickname
- The Chingford Skinhead
- Height5′ 11″ (1.80 m)
- Norman Tebbit was born on March 29, 1931 in Enfield, Middlesex, England, UK. He was previously married to Margaret Tebbit.
- SpouseMargaret Tebbit(September 29, 1956 - December 19, 2020) (her death, 3 children)
- Served as an RAF Pilot during National Service.
- Was an eminence-grise in the Conservative Party during the reign of Margaret Thatcher (1979-1990).
- Tebbit was a close ally of Margaret Thatcher and served as her Secretary of State for Employment, Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and President of the Board of Trade (October 1983-September 1985), as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and as party chairman (1985-1987). During the Brighton hotel bombing he was injured and his wife, Margaret, was permanently disabled.
In the aftermath of urban riots in the summer of 1981, Tebbit responded to a suggestion that the rioting was caused by unemployment by saying: "I grew up in the 1930s with an unemployed father. He did not riot. He got on his bike and looked for work, and he went on looking until he found it.".
- It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism.
- The Muslim religion is so unreformed since it was created that nowhere in the Muslim world has there been any real advance in science or art or literature or technology in the last 500 years.
- The BBC was always against Lady Thatcher.
- Despite the ramblings and spoutings of the over excitable and scarcely rational children in Central office, the nation is not possessed by an overwhelming urge to fill the shadow Cabinet with 25-year-old black lesbians and homosexual, asylum-seeking Muslims. Alan Duncan's totally unsurprising announcement that he is 'gay' has on them the impact of a powder puff flung at an elephant. Britain is a very tolerant country. The great mass of us have no desire to emulate Mr Duncan's activities under his duvet... we do not wish to join in; we just wish profoundly that he would not bore us with his sexual problems. (Speaking in 2002)
- The word 'conservative' is used by the BBC as a portmanteau word of abuse for anyone whose views differ from the insufferable, smug, sanctimonious, naive, guilt-ridden, wet, pink orthodoxy of that sunset home of the third-rate minds of that third-rate decade, the nineteen-sixties.
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