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.
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.
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