2006-09-08 07:06:20 · 14 answers · asked by andyhamilton 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Spencer Perceval is the only British Prime Minister to have been assassinated. He was shot in 1812.
The IRA attempted to assassinate Margaret Thatcher, but did not harm her.
2006-09-08 07:08:21 · answer #1 · answered by MOM KNOWS EVERYTHING 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Assassination: Spencer Perceval, 1812, shot in the lobby of HoC.
Attempted: Margaret Thatcher, 1984, IRA bomb, Grand Hotel, Brighton. John Major, IRA mortar attack on #10 (one fell in the garden).
2006-09-08 23:06:21 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The IRA also tried to assassinate John Major by mortar bombing 10 Downing Street. The mortars landed in the garden even so John was pretty shook up by all accounts.
2006-09-08 09:38:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Spencer Perceval was shot in the lobby of the House of Commons in 1812 by a man named Bellingham, who was angry that the government wouldn't repay his losses in Russia after encouraging him to invest there.
The Cato Street Conspiracy of 1820 planned to shoot the entire Cabinet at dinner.
2006-09-08 07:17:31 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The ira brighton bombing. Just made Maggie Thatchers ears ring a bit
2006-09-08 07:08:59 · answer #5 · answered by 👑 Hypocrite 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-18 06:59:42 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hope it never happens, tis a shame bush wasnt though a few years ago think of all the lives that would have been saved and all the suffering that would have been prevented.
2006-09-08 07:13:10 · answer #7 · answered by Jabba_da_hut_07 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
yes Spencer Percival was
2006-09-11 23:15:49 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not for the want of trying eh! Guy Fawkes maybe??
2006-09-10 08:13:15 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes.....in the brighton conference in the autumn of, i think, 1985...not too sure there.....in the tory conference
there was a bomb that exploded in their hotel.....norman tebbit's wife was paralysed; willie whitelaw died , i think.....
they've never been there since.......always go to bournemouth now......and labour goes to blackpool.....all begin with bs' ..!!!!
maggie said...'she'll never give in to terrorist !'
2006-09-08 07:11:59 · answer #10 · answered by thesundancekid 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋