Thatcher's true believer Norman Tebbit was a bruiser
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Lord Tebbit of Chingford was one of Margaret Thatcher's staunchest true blue political allies and the survivor of an IRA bombing in 1984.
Thatcher ally Tebbit won plaudits as Brighton bomb survivor - Lord Tebbit won sympathy across the political spectrum after surviving the Brighton bomb that killed five people and left his wife in a wheelchair.
When Nicholas Ridley, the arch-Thatcherite transport secretary, introduced laws to privatise Britain’s bus network in 1985, it ushered in the “bus wars”, a time when private companies battled to get the plum routes across the country.