Editing Norman Tebbit (section)

===Other political views===
====Overseas aid====
Speaking in the Lords on 26 November 1996, Lord Tebbit criticised aid to Africa, saying that most aid sent to Africa goes down a "sink of iniquity, corruption and violence" and does little to help the poor.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld199697/ldhansrd/vo961126/text/61126-03.htm|title=Lords Hansard text for 26 Nov 1996 (161126-03)|first=Department of the Official Report (Hansard), House of Lords|last=Westminster|access-date=6 September 2017|archive-date=11 May 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170511082756/https://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld199697/ldhansrd/vo961126/text/61126-03.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> A spokesman for the charity Oxfam said Tebbit's view was "simplistic and unhelpful". Later Lord Tebbit defended his statement that most money went "into the pockets" of politicians "to buy guns for warlords".<ref>''The Daily Telegraph'', 27 November 1996.</ref>

====Homosexuality====
In a letter to ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'' in November 1998, Tebbit said homosexuals should be barred from being Home Secretary.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1998/11/02/nteb02.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030523052202/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/htmlContent.jhtml?html=%2Farchive%2F1998%2F11%2F02%2Fnteb02.html |archive-date=23 May 2003 |first=George |last=Jones |title=Keep gays out of top Government jobs, says Tebbit |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=2 November 1998 |access-date=5 October 2013 |location=London |url-status=dead }}</ref> A Conservative Party spokesman said Tebbit was "out of touch" and the official spokesman for [[William Hague]], then Conservative Party leader, said Hague disagreed with Tebbit.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1998/11/03/nteb03.html=/archive/1998/11/02/nteb02.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030512012645/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/htmlContent.jhtml?html=%2Farchive%2F1998%2F11%2F03%2Fnteb03.html |archive-date=12 May 2003 |first=Robert |last=Shrimsley |title=Tory leaders reject Tebbit's views on gays |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=3 November 1999 |access-date=5 October 2013 |location=London |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 2013, he wrote in his ''Telegraph'' blog that his views concerning whether a homosexual person could be Home Secretary had changed.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/normantebbit/100217539/ignore-the-squeaks-from-the-timid-its-time-to-enact-the-referendum-bill/?ico=^editors_choice|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304091157/http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/normantebbit/100217539/ignore-the-squeaks-from-the-timid-its-time-to-enact-the-referendum-bill/?ico=%5Eeditors_choice|url-status=dead|archive-date=4 March 2016|title=Ignore the squeaks from the timid. It's time to enact the EU referendum bill| date=17 May 2013| access-date= 4 February 2022 |location=London|work=The Daily Telegraph}}</ref>

In 2004, he opposed the British Government's [[Civil Partnership Act 2004]]. In an interview for ''[[The Big Issue]]'' in May 2013, Lord Tebbit said that the coalition government's determination to pass the [[Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill]] had alienated grassroots Tories. He also speculated that it could mean that a lesbian queen could give birth to a future monarch by artificial insemination, and that the legislation might allow him to marry his own son to escape [[Inheritance Tax (United Kingdom)|inheritance tax]].<ref name="bigissue">{{cite web |last1=Delaney |first1=Sam |title=Lord Tebbit: Gay marriage, a lesbian queen – full interview |url=https://www.bigissue.com/news/politics/lord-tebbit-gay-marriage-lesbian-queen-full-interview/ |publisher=The Big Issue |access-date=4 February 2022 |date=30 May 2013}}</ref>

In 2018, Tebbit said that he would not attend services at [[St Edmundsbury Cathedral]] conducted by new dean [[Joe Hawes]], because of Hawes' civil partnership with another clergyman. Tebbit described Hawes as a "sodomite". Hawes said that he felt "absolutely no ill will" towards Tebbit for his comments and stated: "I have always admired the way in which Lord Tebbit has cared for his wife with such devotion following the Brighton bomb."<ref>{{cite news|title=New dean feels 'no ill will' towards Lord Tebbit following controversial 'sodomite' comment|url=http://www.eadt.co.uk/news/new-dean-feels-no-ill-will-towards-lord-tebbit-following-controversial-sodomite-comment-1-5517711|work=East Anglian Daily Times|date=14 May 2018|access-date=15 May 2018}}</ref>

====Northern Ireland====

In October 1999, he spoke out against the plans to abolish the [[Royal Ulster Constabulary]]. Tebbit said he was against throwing the Constabulary's name and badge "into the modernisation trash can" and that the RUC had been "the thin green line standing between bloody anarchy and the rule of law". Tebbit also mocked Blair's pledge at the Labour conference to "set people free": "He has set them free. More than 250 terrorists, bombers and extortionists. Kneecappers, kidnappers, arsonists and killers have been set free. But their victims remain imprisoned. Some are imprisoned within broken bodies. Some imprisoned in grief for their loved ones. Some imprisoned by death in their graves".<ref>George Jones, Polly Newton Andrew Sparrow, [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1999/10/06/ntory06.html 'Tebbit launches bitter attack on Patten's proposals for RUC']{{dead link|date=July 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}, ''The Daily Telegraph'', 6 October 1999.</ref>

====Other parties====
In an article for ''The Spectator'' in May 2001 Tebbit said that retired British security service agents from the [[Foreign Office]] had infiltrated [[James Goldsmith]]'s [[Referendum Party]] in the 1990s and then later infiltrated UKIP. Tebbit called for an independent enquiry into the matter.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/26th-may-2001/16/ukip-is-there-a-hidden-agenda | title=UKIP: Is there a hidden agenda? | date=25 May 2001 | work=The Spectator | first=Norman | last=Tebbit }}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/vote2001/hi/english/newsid_1348000/1348222.stm |work=BBC News  | title=Tebbit secret agent claim | date=23 May 2001 | access-date=20 May 2010}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/386/mi6-ukip.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090213222839/http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/386/mi6-ukip.html|url-status=dead|title=Weekly Worker 386 Thursday 31 May 2001|archive-date=13 February 2009}}</ref>

====Miners' strike====
In 2009, Tebbit said he had regrets about the [[1984–1985 miners' strike]]:

<blockquote>Those mining communities had good working class values and a sense of family values. The men did real men's heavy work going down the pit. There were also some very close-knit communities which were able to deal with the few troublesome kids. If they had any problems they would take the kid round the back and give them a good clip round the ear and that would be the end of that. Many of these communities were completely devastated, with people out of work turning to drugs and no real man's work because all the jobs had gone. There is no doubt that this led to a breakdown in these communities with families breaking up and youths going out of control. The scale of the closures went too far. The damage done to those communities was enormous as a result of the strike.<ref>Francis Beckett and David Hencke, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=552eBAAAQBAJ&q=clip Marching to the Fault Line. The Miners' Strike and the Battle for Industrial Britain]'' (Constable, 2009), pp. 261–262.</ref></blockquote>

====Immigration====
In June 2014, in response to an [[Trojan Horse scandal|alleged Islamist plot to infiltrate schools in Birmingham]], Tebbit wrote in ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'', "No one should have been surprised at what was going on in schools in Birmingham. It is precisely what I was talking about over 20 years ago and [[Enoch Powell]] was warning against long before that. We have imported far too many immigrants who have come here not to live in our society, but to replicate here the society of their homelands."<ref>{{cite news|author1=Tebbit, Norman|author-link1=Norman Tebbit|title=Trojan Horse: I warned about this years ago|url=http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/normantebbit/100275737/trojan-horse-i-warned-about-this-years-ago/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140614001133/http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/normantebbit/100275737/trojan-horse-i-warned-about-this-years-ago/|url-status=dead|archive-date=14 June 2014|access-date=19 January 2015|work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|date=10 June 2014}}</ref>

===="Foreigners" speech====
In 2017, Lord Tebbit criticised a Lords amendment to the [[European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Act 2017|Brexit bill]] which would guarantee the rights of EU citizens to live and work within the UK after [[Brexit]]. He also criticised the Lords for "thinking of nothing but the rights of foreigners" and "[looking] after the foreigners and not the British",<ref>{{cite news|last1=Bienkov|first1=Adam|title=Lord Tebbit: 'We seem to be thinking of nothing but the rights of foreigners'|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/lord-tebbit-norman-rights-of-foreigners-eu-citizens-british-brexit-2017-3|access-date=5 March 2017|work=Business Insider|date=1 March 2017|archive-date=4 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404001230/http://uk.businessinsider.com/lord-tebbit-norman-rights-of-foreigners-eu-citizens-british-brexit-2017-3|url-status=live}}</ref> as [[Theresa May]] had hoped to leave this amendment out of the bill to secure the rights of British citizens living in EU countries post-Brexit. His comments produced "loud gasps" from the majority of peers<ref>{{cite news|last1=Merrick|first1=Rob|title=Lord Tebbit accuses peers trying to guarantee EU nationals' rights of 'thinking of nothing but the rights of foreigners'|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-bill-lord-tebbit-right-eu-nationals-foreigners-comments-a7606456.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220621/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-bill-lord-tebbit-right-eu-nationals-foreigners-comments-a7606456.html |archive-date=21 June 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|access-date=5 March 2017|work=The Independent|date=1 March 2017}}</ref> (but gained audible support by a number on the Conservative benches),<ref>{{cite news|last1=Rayner|first1=Gordon|last2=Hope|first2=Christopher|last3=McCann|first3=Kate|title=Theresa May plans to trigger Brexit in two weeks despite defeat by 'posturing' Lords over rights of EU citizens|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/01/brexit-lords-vote-debate-theresa-may-pmqs-live/|access-date=5 March 2017|work=The Telegraph|date=2 March 2017}}</ref> adding that "Of course we don't have the power to look after our citizens overseas, not in these days when we don't have many gunboats".<ref>{{cite news|last1=Craig|first1=Jon|title=Not even Lloyd Webber can save the Tories|url=http://news.sky.com/story/not-even-sir-andrew-lloyd-webber-can-save-the-tories-10786966|access-date=5 March 2017|publisher=Sky News|date=2 March 2017}}</ref>