Norman Tebbit

Diary – 19 October 2002

The Polecat deals with his potential expulsion from the Tory party by cultivating his communist plot

issue 19 October 2002

Sunday: Ducked morning service in favour of gardening, but made it to a special evening service to celebrate the Jubilee year and the community of our parish. In the midst of a powerful sermon on how technology has changed village life, the rector clamped his mobile to his ear, yelling, ‘I am in the pulpit.

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