Tributes paid to Tory ‘titan’ Norman Tebbit after his death aged 94

Lord Norman Tebbit, the former chairman of the Conservative Party, speaks in the The Telegraph debate at the Royal bath hotel in Bournemouth, on the second day of the Tory conference in Bournemouth. - (PA Archive)

Tory former Cabinet minister Lord Norman Tebbit, who has died aged 94, was an “icon in British politics”, Kemi Badenoch said.

The Conservative grandee was one of Margaret Thatcher’s closest political allies and played a key role in Tory politics for a generation.