Politics Without The Boring Bits

Killing Thatcher

04.04.2023 - By The TimesPlay

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Matt revisits the last night of the Conservative party conference in 1984 when the IRA bombed the Grand Hotel in Brighton in an attempt to kill Margaret Thatcher.  Author Rory Carroll explains how the attack was carried out and journalist Philip Webster remembers what it was like reporting at the scene.

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