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Killing Thatcher

Rory Carroll

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.

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“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.