Norman Tebbit was one of Margaret Thatcher's true believers and one of her most loyal allies. In a Conservative party full of old Etonians and toffs, he was also one of very few cabinet ministers from a working-class background.

Former British politician Norman Tebbit has died “peacefully at home” at the age of 94, his son William has said. Mr Tebbit was part of then prime minister Margaret Thatcher’s cabinet during the 1980s,