He held a series of roles in Margaret Thatcher’s cabinet, but left high office after his wife was seriously hurt in a bombing by the Irish Republican Army.

Tributes have been paid to former cabinet minister Norman Tebbitt, who has died. Lord Tebbit, who lived in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, was MP for Epping and then Chingford in Essex between 1970 and 1992 before joining the House of Lords.

Norman Tebbit, an outspoken former British politician and loyal supporter of Margaret Thatcher who only just survived a deadly 1984 bomb attack on her government in Brighton, has died at the age of 94.