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It wasn't truthful overmuch a gathering of the Thatcher clan, due to the fact that determination are not galore of her furniture ministers from the 1980s inactive astir these days.
But the bulk of the Tory grandees who gathered astatine St Edmundsbury Cathedral successful Suffolk for the ceremonial of her astir loyal ally, Norman Tebbit, were so Thatcher devotees.
Paying tribute to the person known arsenic "the archetypal Brexiteer" and "the gramps of Brexit" were Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg, Mark Francois, erstwhile 1922 Committee president Lord Graham Brady and Liz Truss's lawman PM Therese Coffey.
From the Thatcher years was the novelist and Tory cheerleader Jeffrey Archer with his woman Mary, John Gummer, present Lord Deben, who was Tory president successful the mid '80s, and the hubby and woman governmental duo Neil and Christine Hamilton.
But determination was nary motion of Lord Tebbit's aged foes implicit Europe, specified arsenic Thatcher furniture large beasts Lord Michael Heseltine oregon Lord Kenneth Clarke, oregon Tory leaders with whom helium clashed implicit Europe, specified arsenic Sir John Major and Lord David Cameron.
Typically, fixed Lord Tebbit's robustly held, uncompromising beliefs and values, his ceremonial was a work that was accepted and patriotic. Lady Thatcher would decidedly person approved.
It began with Elgar's stirring Nimrod from the Enigma Variations and the hymns included the Cup Final anthem Abide with Me and I Vow to Thee, My Country, to the euphony from Holst's The Planets.
Lord Tebbit's successor arsenic MP for Chingford, Sir Iain Duncan Smith, who attended with his woman Betsy, gave the archetypal reading, the country from Shakespeare's Hamlet successful which Laertes says goodbye to his sister Ophelia.
When helium near the Commons successful 1992, Lord Tebbit famously said of his successor, who went connected to go Tory person from 2001 to 2003: "If you deliberation I'm right-wing, you should conscionable this guy."
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One of Baroness Thatcher's favourite concern tycoons, the erstwhile P&O brag and large Tory donor Lord Jeffrey Sterling, work The Lord's My Shepherd, earlier Lord Tebbit's children, William, Alison and John, shared immoderate household reflections.
The eulogy was delivered by Lord Michael Dobbs, champion known arsenic the writer of the 1990s TV governmental blockbuster House of Cards, but earlier past an influential Tory insider, moving for some Baroness Thatcher and Lord Tebbit.
He worked for Baroness Thatcher erstwhile she was absorption person from 1975-79 and was a peculiar advisor to Lord Tebbit astatine the departments of employment and past commercialized and commercialized and industry, and his main of unit erstwhile helium was Tory chairman.
The work ended with references to Lord Tebbit's aboriginal beingness successful the RAF, earlier helium became a commercialized pilot, with the Last Post played by an RAF Central Band trumpeter and past the authoritative RAF March.
After the service, Lord Dobbs described Lord Tebbit arsenic "a giant, an inspiring leader", portion Lord Archer said helium was "above all, loyal", adding: "Loyalty was his passion."
Sir Iain said Lord Tebbit was his mentor passim the aboriginal portion of his governmental vocation and said: "He was a pugnacious competitor, but the quality of it that came retired was helium had a existent brushed bosom and was benignant and had galore friends connected each sides of the House."
The ceremonial was followed by a backstage cremation and friends person told Sky News a memorial work for Lord Tebbit volition beryllium held successful owed course.
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