The Conservative grandee, who is survived by two sons and a daughter, was one of Margaret Thatcher’s closest political allies and played a key role in Tory Party politics. He suffered grave injuries in the IRA’s 1984 Brighton bombing, and it took four hours for fire crews to extricate him and his wife, Margaret, from the wreckage.

Norman Tebbit, the former Tory minister who served in Margaret Thatcher's government, has died at the age of 94.

Thatcher ally Tebbit won plaudits as Brighton bomb survivor - Lord Tebbit won sympathy across the political spectrum after surviving the Brighton bomb that killed five people and left his wife in a wheelchair.