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7 unusual facts about Norman Tebbit


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Norman Tebbit records in his memoirs that shortly after being elected an MP in 1970, he was elected to the party's backbench committee on housing policy even though he was virtually unknown to most MPs.

Barbara Kelly

After retiring from show business, Barbara Kelly established a show business agency called 'Prime Performers', which offered many people from public life, including Barbara Windsor, Joan Collins, Raymond Baxter, Norman Tebbit and Sir John Harvey-Jones, for the after-dinner speaking circuit.

Ginny Dougary

Ginny Dougary was shortlisted as Interviewer of the Year in 2009 and 2010 for her interviews with Benazir Bhutto, Norman Tebbit, and Ian McKellen.

Inner London Education Authority

However, the Government's hand was forced when an amendment was tabled in the House of Commons by Norman Tebbit and supported by Michael Heseltine to abolish the ILEA altogether.

Kate Adie

Adie was thereafter regularly dispatched to report on disasters and conflicts throughout the 1980s, including the American bombing of Tripoli in 1986 (her reporting of this was criticised by the Conservative Party Chairman Norman Tebbit), and the Lockerbie bombing of 1988.

Rufus B. Tebbetts

Rufus B. Tebbetts was related to the Tebbit family of England, of which Norman Tebbit was also a politician.

Tebbit

Norman Tebbit (born 1931), British politician (now Baron Tebbit)


Breakfast Time

One of Breakfast Times most notable episodes was on the morning of the Brighton bombing when Nick Ross in the studio presented continuous live coverage of the IRA's attack at the Conservative Party conference in 1984, including live pictures of the rescue of senior politicians such as Norman Tebbit.


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