Norman Tebbit
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"Norman Beresford Tebbit, Baron Tebbit", Order of the Companions of Honour/CH, Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council/PC, is a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party (UK)/Conservative Party, he served in the Cabinet from 1981 to 1987 as Secretary of State for Employment

(1981–83), Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (1983–85), Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (1985–87) and Chairman of the Conservative Party (1985–87). He was a member of parliament (MP) from 1970 to 1992, representing the constituencies of Epping (UK Parliament constituency)/Epping (1970–74) and Chingford (UK Parliament constituency)/Chingford (1974–92).

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The Conservatives played like England cricketers - too many rash strokes and run-outs, dropped catches and bowling anywhere but the stumps.

Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves.

The word "conservative" is used by the BBC as a portmanteau word of abuse for anyone whose views differ from the insufferable, smug, sanctimonious, naive, guilt-ridden, wet, pink orthodoxy of that sunset home of the third-rate minds of that third-rate decade, the nineteen-sixties.

It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism.