article_snippet: Thatcher (right) is once said to have fought off Norman Tebbit (left) with a snarling remark in Waldegrave's defence .
article_snippet: Thatcher liked and rated Thatcher, and once fought off a snarling Norman Tebbit on Thatcher behalf.
article_snippet: This enraged Tebbit, who savaged him during a meeting at No 10 for being a toff, and knowing nothing of the concerns of working folk at British Leyland.
article_snippet: With magnificent condescension, Thatcher explained to a snarling Norman Tebbit that Thatcher was a chemist, and that it was he, not Waldegrave, who did not understand these matters.
article_snippet: Bit by bit, Thatcher dismantled a snarling Norman Tebbit’s case until he had no argument left.