Norman tebbit autobiography sample
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As the Tories suffer a historic defeat at the polls, Norman Tebbit names the dock who brought Maggie down.
As the Tories suffer a historic defeat at the polls, Norman Tebbit names the dock who brought Maggie down.
The story of the fall from office of Margaret Thatcher is told in dispassionate detail bygd Charles Moore in Herself Alone, the third volume of his masterful tjänsteman biography, just out in paperback.
But inom don’t think he applies the word ‘guilty’ to any of those involved in her fall from office.
She was far from the first – or indeed the gods – of Conservative leaders or Prime Ministers to be ousted against their will from office bygd colleagues, to whom the description "guilty men" or, for that matter, skyldig women might be applied.
As one of the tightly knit group of half a dozen or so MPs – led by Airey Neave, the Member for Abingdon and the heroic escapee from Nazi Germany's most highly secure prisoner-of-war prison, Colditz Castle – who plotted the campaign
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Before I opened a copy of his autobiography on a train leaving Liverpool recently, I tell Lord Tebbit, I took the precaution of removing the dust jacket. I think I'd have been safer reading Mein Kampf, which might have been interpreted as academic research.
"You never know," says Tebbit, unflustered by this implicit association with the Führer. "Years ago, in a buffet car, I encountered a large group of drunken Millwall supporters. They initiated a debate on rail privatisation. At Euston, they escorted me to a cab, singing a song they'd composed: 'In Praise of Norm'. People were fleeing from us. It was one of the most surreal experiences of my life."
This would be the legacy of his portrayal, on Spitting Image, as a psychopathic skinhead. "Yes. The puppet made me one of them."
Tebbit, 84, is speaking in the study at his house in Bury St Edmunds. It swiftly emerges that our views are diametrically opposed on almost every subject but this doesn't trouble him. In private he exh
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The Skinhead's Last Stand: Norman Tebbit was once a powerful man. He backed the right horse,
3 JUNE, 1993. Before Baron Tebbit of Chingford arrives in the make-up suite at the Westminster studio of Sky television, Clare, the make-up woman, says: 'Ooh, he makes me laugh, Norman. He has me shrieking]' She is holding the little pot of stuff she will smear on Lord Tebbit's face, the little brush she will use to touch him up. Sky News is silently running on a large screen at the back of the room.
Clare says: 'He said he was going to bring me back a present from Switzerland. I said what is it? He said: a snowball] I said where is it? He said: it didn't quite make the plane]'
Lord Tebbit appears, grinning, and walks across the room with a slight limp, a result of his Grand Hotel bomb injury. He has a superficial perkiness, but looks weary, a man from whom power has slipped, and is continuing to slip. He wears a grey pinstripe Gieves &-
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