He held a series of roles in Margaret Thatcher’s cabinet, but left high office to care for his wife, who was seriously hurt in a bombing by the Irish Republican Army.

LONDON -- Conservative politician Norman Tebbit, a key ally of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in her free-market transformation of Britain, has died at the age of 94, his family said Tuesday. Tebbit’s son William said he died peacefully at home late Monday. No cause was given.

Norman Tebbit, an outspoken former British politician and loyal supporter of Margaret Thatcher who only just survived a deadly 1984 bomb attack on her government in Brighton, has died at the age of 94.