Norman Tebbit’s devotion to his wife Margaret and defiance after Brighton bomb – The Yorkshire Post says

NORMAN Tebbit was one of Margaret Thatcher’s more hard-nosed ministers; the renowned political bruiser of the early 1980s also came to embody all those carers who sacrificed their careers, and ambitions, to look after loved ones.
By YP Comment
Published 23rd Dec 2020, 11:35 GMT
Norman Tebbit and his late wife Margaret at their home. Photo: David Parker/ANL/ShutterstockNorman Tebbit and his late wife Margaret at their home. Photo: David Parker/ANL/Shutterstock
Norman Tebbit and his late wife Margaret at their home. Photo: David Parker/ANL/Shutterstock

He would refer to his late wife, who has died after being paralysed in the 1984 IRA Brighton bombing as “my Margaret”. This was not to distinguish her from the then Prime Minister but recognition of their sheer devotion to each other.

Now Lord Tebbit is bereft by his loss after 64 years of marriage – and the unspeakable pain that they both suffered after being left trapped for hours in the mutilated wreckage of the Grand Hotel.

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But he won the admiration for all for the lifelong dedication that he showed his wife – he always maintained that she would require far more support from him than a team of carers – and it can only be hoped that, in time, he feels able to use his experiences to help inform the wider care debate.

Lord Tebbit and his wife Margaret stand outside the Grand Hotel in Brighton, East Sussex on the 25th anniversary of the bombing of the building by the IRA on October 12, 1984.Lord Tebbit and his wife Margaret stand outside the Grand Hotel in Brighton, East Sussex on the 25th anniversary of the bombing of the building by the IRA on October 12, 1984.
Lord Tebbit and his wife Margaret stand outside the Grand Hotel in Brighton, East Sussex on the 25th anniversary of the bombing of the building by the IRA on October 12, 1984.

It would also be the most fitting tribute of all to ‘his Margaret’.

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