In 1984 , he was injured in the Provisional Irish Republican Army 's bombing of the Grand Hotel in Brighton , where he was staying during the Conservative Party Conference . His wife Margaret was left permanently disabled after the explosion . He left the cabinet after the 1987 general election to care for his wife . He considered standing for the Conservative leadership after Margaret Thatcher 's resignation in 1990 , but came to the decision not to stand as he had earlier made a commitment to his wife to retire from front-line politics . He retired from parliament for Chingford in 1992 , and has since sat in the House of Lords as '' ' Baron Tebbit ' '' , of Chingford
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Norman Tebbit