Former Conservative cabinet minister dies aged 94

Norman Tebbit has died aged 94 at his home in Bury St Edmonds. The former cabinet minister in Margaret Thatcher’s government passed away peacefully at 11.15m on July 7. Former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has led tributes describing Tebbit as “a titan of Conservative politics whose resilience, conviction and service left a lasting mark on our party and our country” (Picture: Georges De Keerle/Getty Images)

At the beginning of his political career, Norman Tebbit was elected as MP for Epping in 1970 and then Chingford in 1974 (Picture: PA)

Tebbit was appointed Under-Secretary at the Ministry of Trade in 1979 by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. He held various positions within the party until his retirement from the House of Lords on 31 March 2022 (Picture: ITV/Shutterstock)

Tebbit and his wife Margaret were staying at the Grand Hotel in Brighton during the Conservative Party Conference on the 12th October 1984 when it was bombed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). He was trapped under rubble from the blast for four hours before he was eventually pulled from the wreckage (Picture:: House of Lords/PA Wire)

Five people were killed in the failed assassination attempt on Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Margaret Tebbit was left paralysed from the chest down (Picture: David Parker/ANL/Shutterstock)

In 1987, the Conservative government were elected for a third term, with Thatcher standing down as Prime Minister in November 1990 after 11 years at number 10. Tebbit, meanwhile, left government after the election in order to care for his wife - turning down the chance to run in the election for Tory party leader in 1990 (Picture: AP Photo/Gerald Penny)

In 2002 Lord Tebbit won the Spectator Peer of the Year award. Here he is pictured with Survivor of the Year, Gerald Kaufman (Picture: Sean Dempsey/PA Wire)

Norman Tebbit attended Margaret Thatcher’s funeral in 2013. He was affiliated with the Conservative party for 52 years (Picture: David Parker/PA Wire)

When asked about his friend Jimmy Savile during an interview with The Guardian’s Decca Aikenhead in 2013, Tebbit revealed that he believed "Jimmy did a great deal of good, as well as wrong.” Tebbit attended Savile’s funeral in 2011 (Picture: Shutterstock)

Leader of the Conservative party, Kemi Badenoch, has paid tribute to Tebbit on social media platform X, describing him as “an icon in British politics” and adding that 'his death will cause sadness across the political spectrum' (Picture: Shutterstock)