Norman Tabit, who served as a cabinet minister in Margaret Thatcher’s government, died at the age of 94.

During the 1980s, he worked as the President of the Conservative Party and the leadership departments including trade and industry and employment.

A loyal colleague of Thaccher, Lord Tabbit, supported his agenda, which brought to the laws designed to curb the power of the Sangh – including making him liable to harm on illegal work.

In 1984, he and his wife were injured in the Ira bombing of the Grand Hotel in Brighton during the Tory Party’s annual conference.

He suffered a broken shoulder blade, fragmented vertebrae and a torn collarbone, while his wife, Margaret was left permanently disabled by the bomb.

In a statement issued on Tuesday, Lord Tabbit’s son William said: “Lord Tabbit died peacefully on 7 July 2025 at 11.15 am at a 94 -year -old house.

“His family asked that his confidentiality is honored at this time and another statement about the funeral arrangement would be made in the appropriate time.”

Orthodox leader Kemi Badenoch stated that Lord Tabit “was an icon in British politics and his death would cause sadness in political spectrum”.

Lord Michael Dobs, author of the House of Cards, who worked as the Chief of Staff of Lord Tabbit, told the BBC Radio 4’s Today program, “He” was a man of great humor, a man of great political insight and also a person of tremendous courage. ,

He said, “Not only political courage because he was ready to pursue the policies that he thought he was fundamentally right, even though he could be unpopular, but he was also a person of great personal courage – the way he settled since the brighton bombing,” he said.

“Politics misses the people of the character who believe so deeply what they are doing that they put everything at risk for this.”

Lord Charls Moore, a biography of Margaret Thatcher, said he was “the first important personal example of Thacherism in action as he was a self-made man from the working class and was unpublished about it”.

Lord Tabbit served as an MP from 1970 to 1992, represented EPING for the first four years and Chingford from 1974 to 1992.

In 1981, he gave a famous speech at the Orthodox Party conference, in which he criticized the riots on unemployment, told the audience that his father did not riot in the 1930s, but “he was on his bike and used to seek work until he found it”.

In 1990, he instigated anger when he introduced a ‘Cricket Test’ to help determine whether a person was really British.

“A large proportion of the UK Asian population fails to pass a cricket test,” he said.

“What side are they happy for? This is an interesting exam. Are you still coming back where you have come from or where are you?”