Before entering politics , Lansley had " a promising career in the civil service " . Lansley worked for Norman Tebbit for three years as his private secretary at the Department of Trade and Industry . This encompassed the period of the IRA 's 1984 Brighton hotel bombing at the Conservative Party Conference in which Tebbit was seriously injured . Lansley and others have been praised by Tebbit for their support at that time
Brighton hotel bombing
Brighton hotel bombing
Andrew Lansley