Killing Thatcher
May 2025
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A narrative account of the 1984 Brighton bombing plot and the hunt to assassinate British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
“I’m in the business to try and make Britain great again,” she said.
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only time a sitting British prime minister had been murdered was in 1812, when John Bellingham, a businessman with a grudge against the government, shot Spencer Perceval through the heart at point-blank range.
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Politics didn’t come into it, but police officers tended to admire Thatcher, so that didn’t hurt. And they all liked overtime.