One of Margaret Thatcher’s staunchest lieutenants, the ‘Chingford skinhead’ held some notorious opinions and would happily go studs-up with his political opponents – but in person, Lord Tebbit was anything but a ‘semi-house-trained polecat’, recalls historian Tim Bale
Voices: Norman Tebbitt carried a torch for a ‘true-blue’ politics now embraced by Nigel Farage … from the Independent Tim Bale
