"as in places. The yard was occasionally opened to the public to attend public speeches by the likes of William Ewart Gladstone, but is now treated as a secure area, closed to the public. New Palace Yard has twice been the scene of terrorist attacks. On 31 March 1979, an Irish National Liberation Army car bomb killed MP Airey Neave as he exited the underground car park at New Palace Yard. On 22 March 2017, a British terrorist crashed a car into the perimeter fence of the Palace grounds, after driving into pedestrians on the Westminster Bridge. After abandoning the"
"Assassination of Airey Neave On 30 March 1979 the Irish National Liberation Army mortally wounded Airey Neave, the British Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with a bomb fixed under his car which detonated in the Palace of Westminster car park in London. Neave subsequently died of his injuries. The Irish National Liberation Army, and its political wing the Irish Republican Socialist Party, was formed at a meeting in a Dublin hotel in December 1974. In 1975 it began carrying out a paramilitary campaign in Northern Ireland on British Government facilities and officials with the strategic objective of removing"
"Secretary]. He would have brought the armed struggle to its knees"". As a result of Neave's assassination the INLA was declared illegal across the whole of the United Kingdom on 2 July 1979. Neave's body was buried in the graveyard of St. Margaret's Church at Hinton Waldrist, in Oxfordshire. Assassination of Airey Neave On 30 March 1979 the Irish National Liberation Army mortally wounded Airey Neave, the British Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with a bomb fixed under his car which detonated in the Palace of Westminster car park in London. Neave subsequently died of his injuries. The"
"of Airey Neave, a prominent Conservative politician, while he was driving out of the Commons car park in New Palace Yard. The attack occurred on 30 March 1979, one day after the announcement of that year's general election; both the Irish National Liberation Army and the Provisional IRA claimed responsibility for Neave's assassination, but it is now accepted that the former were responsible. The Palace has also been the scene of numerous acts of politically motivated ""direct action"", which often took place in the Chamber of the House of Commons. In July 1970, a man in the Strangers' Gallery threw"
"Northern Ireland was in a violent phase. Insurgents planted bombs and assassinated its foes, including in 1979 Airey Neave, Thatcher's close friend who was slated to take charge there. The Irish National Liberation Army (INLA), a republican paramilitary group, claimed responsibility. On 27 August 1979, the IRA Assassinated Lord Mountbatten, a member of the royal family, and other units killed 18 policeman. Sheer luck on the early morning of 12 October 1984 saved Thatcher's life as five were killed by a bomb planted by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in Brighton's Grand Hotel during the Conservative Party conference. In 1981,"
"an attack was ""highly likely"". There had not been a killing at the Palace of Westminster since the assassination of Airey Neave by the Irish National Liberation Army in 1979, which took place close to New Palace Yard, during the Northern Ireland conflict. The previous terrorist attack to have caused multiple casualties on the British mainland had been the 7 July 2005 London bombings. Shortly before the attack, a division (vote) had been called in the House of Commons. At 14:40local time on 22 March 2017, a grey Hyundai Tucson, hired in Birmingham, was driven at up to into pedestrians"
"paramilitarism in Ulster, and switch to one of pursuing its military defeat, and it is believed that this is what led to him being targeted on the eve of the 1979 General Election, which saw the Conservative Party led by Margaret Thatcher enter power. After his death, Conservative leader Margaret Thatcher said of Neave: Labour Prime Minister James Callaghan said: ""No effort will be spared to bring the murderers to justice and to rid the United Kingdom of the scourge of terrorism."" The INLA issued a statement regarding the murder in the August 1979 edition of ""The Starry Plough"": Neave's"
"at that job [Northern Ireland Secretary]. He would have brought the armed struggle to its knees"". As a result of Neave's assassination the INLA was declared illegal across the whole of the United Kingdom on 2 July 1979. Neave's body was buried in the graveyard of St. Margaret's Church at Hinton Waldrist, in Oxfordshire. Whilst working in the House of Commons as Paddy Ashdown's research assistant, Kevin Cahill claims to have had around six conversations with the security staff there. The most frequent remark was that ""everyone knew"" the story behind Neave's death but no one could talk about it"
"death came just two days after the vote of no confidence which brought down Callaghan's government and a few weeks before the 1979 general election, which brought about a Conservative victory and saw Thatcher come to power as Prime Minister. Neave's wife Diana, whom he married on 29 December 1942, was subsequently elevated to the House of Lords as Baroness Airey of Abingdon. Neave's biographer Paul Routledge met a member of the Irish Republican Socialist Party (the political wing of INLA) who was involved in the killing of Neave and who told Routledge that Neave ""would have been very successful"
"left the House of Commons a few minutes before 3 P.M. As he drove up the underground car park's exit ramp the angle tilted the bomb's mercury switch and it exploded, the blast knocking Neave unconscious, severing his legs and trapping him in the mangled wreckage of the vehicle. Neave was cut free from the wreckage by the emergency services, and rushed to Westminster Hospital by ambulance, dying there a few minutes after arrival, not having regained consciousness. The I.N.L.A. issued a statement regarding the attack in the August 1979 edition of its publication ""The Starry Plough"": Neave's death came"
"last until Airey Neave's assassination by the INLA in 1979. Wilson's widow blamed the government for his death – when Conservative leader Austen Chamberlain called on the evening of his death to offer his condolences, he was by one account greeted by her with the word ""murderer"" and by another simply asked to leave by Wilson's niece – and she was only persuaded to allow government representation at the funeral on the grounds that not to do so would be disrespectful to the King. Wilson's mother wrote to Bonar Law (former Conservative leader and increasingly seen as an alternative if"
"new Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, which would place him in a position of governmental executive authority to bring his military strategy for the Province into fruition. A political source in Westminster hostile to Neave's statements on the security situation in Ulster is believed to have passed on information to the I.N.L.A. which gave it the means to carry out the assassination attack upon him within the precincts of the Palace of Westminster. The information it had received gave it a means of access to the House of Commons' car park, and I.N.L.A. decided to use a bomb with"
"and the ""New Statesman"" was going to print the story. Benn, however, discounted the validity of the story, writing in his diary: ""No one will believe for a moment that Airey Neave would have done such a thing"". The magazine printed the story on 20 February 1981, naming the agent as Lee Tracey. Tracey claimed to have met Neave, who asked him to join a team of intelligence and security specialists which would ""make sure Benn was stopped"". A planned second meeting never took place because Neave was killed. Airey Neave was critically wounded on 30 March 1979 when a"
"just two days after the vote of no confidence which brought down Callaghan's government and a month before the 1979 general election, which saw a Conservative victory and Thatcher come to power as Prime Minister. Neave's wife Diana, whom he married on 29 December 1942, was subsequently elevated to the House of Lords as Baroness Airey of Abingdon. Neave's biographer Paul Routledge met a member of the Irish Republican Socialist Party (the political wing of INLA) who was involved in the killing of Neave and who told Routledge that Neave ""would have been very successful at that job [Northern Ireland"
"of Burma, and that the assassination of the MPs Airey Neave and Robert Bradford were carried out at the direction of elements in the Government of the United States of America with the strategic objective of preventing Neave's policy of integration of Ulster fully into the United Kingdom. Then, in 1986, Powell stated that the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) had not killed Neave but that ""MI6 and their friends"" were responsible, Powell citing as his sources for such an astonishing accusation by a British parliamentarian information that had been disclosed to him from within the Royal Ulster Constabulary. Margaret"
"in detail, because it would have been too dangerous. Cahill claims they did not believe INLA killed Neave. Instead, it was an ""inside job"". Cahill concluded that Neave was killed by MI6 agents working with the CIA because Neave sought to prosecute senior figures in the intelligence establishment for corruption. Another person who did not accept the generally accepted version of events was Enoch Powell, the Ulster Unionist MP. Powell claimed in an interview with ""The Guardian"" on 9 January 1984 the Americans had killed Neave, along with Lord Mountbatten and Robert Bradford MP. He claimed the evidence came from"
"a member of the Royal Ulster Constabulary with whom he had a conversation. On 18 October 1986, Powell returned to the subject of Neave's death in a speech to conservative students in Birmingham. He told them the INLA had not killed Neave, but rather, had been assassinated by ""MI6 and their friends"". Powell said Neave's Northern Ireland policy had been one of integration with the rest of the UK and that the Americans feared that this process, if implemented by Neave, would have been irreversible. His killing, alleged Powell, was intended to make the British government adopt a policy more"
"the province's nationalist minority and with the government of the Republic of Ireland. Both Neave and Gow were killed by car bomb attacks in 1979 and 1990 respectively. Irish republican paramilitaries claimed responsibility in both cases, but nobody was ever charged with causing the deaths and claims were made concerning possible involvement of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and intelligence community. Through his association with Neave, Gow was introduced to the inner circles of the Conservative Party. He was appointed parliamentary private secretary to Margaret Thatcher in May 1979 at the time she became Prime Minister. While serving"
"Assassination of Spencer Perceval Spencer Perceval, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, was shot and killed in the lobby of the House of Commons in London, at about 5:15 pm on Monday 11 May 1812. His assassin was John Bellingham, a Liverpool merchant with a grievance against the government. Bellingham was detained and, four days after the murder, was tried, convicted and sentenced to death. He was hanged at Newgate Prison one week later on 18 May. Perceval had led the Tory government since 1809, during a critical phase of the Napoleonic Wars. His"
"Wilson's foreknowledge. The operation was repeated on three more occasions in June, July and September. These military deployments were perceived as a practice-run for a military takeover rather than an anti-terrorist exercise. Airey Neave, the Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) was alleged to have been involved with Clockwork Orange, and to have briefed Wallace on a number of occasions. Other than Wallace's testimony, the primary evidence for the existence of this plot consisted of a series of handwritten notes taken by Wallace in meetings with other members of the plot. Journalists investigating Wallace's story had these notes analysed by a"
"a mercury-tilt switch detonator which would explode when the device was at a certain acute angle on the House of Commons' car park ramp, as it lacked information on Neave's movements with the car to allow the effective use of a time bomb device. On Friday 30 March 1979 two I.N.L.A. paramilitaries gained entry to the House of Commons' underground car park posing as workmen, carrying the bomb in a tool box. Once inside they identified Neave's car, and fixed a 16 ounce explosive device with a mercury tilt detonator on to the floor panel under the driver's seat. Neave"
"their organizations and activities. A member of I.N.L.A's leadership later stated: """"He (Neave) was coming in on the heels of Mason to settle the Northern problem, and made Mason look like a lamb. He wanted to bring in more Special Air Service, and take the war to the enemy"""". After the Labour Government's defeat in the House of Commons on a vote of no confidence on 28 March 1979, a general election was called in the United Kingdom, and with the Conservative Party expected to win the election, Neave, as the party's spokesman on Ulster, was set to become the"
"assignment after becoming permanently based in London following brief periods in Northern Ireland. The reforms brought about by former BBC Director General Hugh Greene benefited news coverage, according to Cole, but were accompanied by the heavy drug use of some BBC departments. Cole covered Margaret Thatcher's career following her election as Conservative Party leader in 1975, told her on camera that Airey Neave had been assassinated, and was on hand at the rescue of Norman Tebbit after the Brighton's Grand Hotel was bombed by the IRA. Cole inadvertently revealed to a press correspondent's lunch some of the 1987 Queen's Christmas"
"against any similar attempts against the Sovereign. Sir Walter Raleigh was executed at the Palace of Westminster on 29 October 1618. The previous Palace of Westminster was also the site of a prime-ministerial assassination on 11 May 1812. While in the lobby of the House of Commons, on his way to a parliamentary inquiry, Spencer Perceval was shot and killed by a Liverpool merchant adventurer, John Bellingham. Perceval remains the only British Prime Minister to have been assassinated. The New Palace became the target of Fenian bombs on 24 January 1885, along with the Tower of London. The first bomb,"
"Warrenpoint ambush The Warrenpoint ambush or Narrow Water ambush, also called the Warrenpoint massacre or Narrow Water massacre, was a guerrilla attack by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) on 27 August 1979. The IRA's South Armagh Brigade ambushed the British Army with two large roadside bombs at Narrow Water Castle (near Warrenpoint) in Northern Ireland. The first bomb was aimed at a British Army convoy and the second targeted the reinforcements sent to deal with the incident. IRA volunteers hidden in nearby woodland also allegedly fired on the troops. The castle is on the banks of the Newry River,"
"acceptable to America in her aim of a united Ireland within NATO. In 2014, 35 years after Neave's death, it was reported that a fictionalised account of Neave's murder was to be used in a Channel 4 drama. The drama, ""Utopia"", portrays Neave as a drinker who colluded with spies and portrays his assassination as perpetrated by MI5. This led to condemnation of the broadcaster, with Norman Tebbit (a friend and political colleague of Neave) saying ""To attack a man like that who is dead and cannot defend himself is despicable"". Neave's family, who had not been consulted about the"
"Neville Heath Neville George Clevely Heath (6 June 1917 – 16 October 1946) was an English murderer who was responsible for the deaths of two young women. He was executed in London in October 1946. Heath was born in Ilford in Essex, England. Although he came from a lower middle class background, his father, who was a barber, made considerable financial sacrifices so that he could attend a grammar school, Rutlish School, at Merton Park, southwest London. He joined the Royal Air Force in 1937, but was dismissed for going absent without leave. He was caught obtaining credit by fraud,"
"comprehensively rebuilt and expanded. In July 2014, a brass memorial plaque was unveiled in St Stephen's Hall, Houses of Parliament, close to the place where Perceval was killed. Michael Ellis, Conservative MP for Northampton North (part of Perceval's old Northampton constituency) had campaigned for the plaque after four patterned floor tiles that were said to mark the spot had been removed by workmen in a recent renovation. Assassination of Spencer Perceval Spencer Perceval, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, was shot and killed in the lobby of the House of Commons in London, at"
"instead. This integrationist policy was hastily abandoned by Humphrey Atkins, who became Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, the role Neave had shadowed. Politician Tony Benn records in his diary (17 February 1981) that a journalist from the ""New Statesman"", Duncan Campbell, told him that he had received information two years previously, from an intelligence agent, that Neave had planned to have Benn assassinated if, following the election of Labour government, Labour leader James Callaghan resigned and there was a possibility that Benn might be elected in his place. Campbell claimed that the agent was ready to give his name"
"programme, announced their intention to take action to prevent the programme from being broadcast, claiming it had ""fictionalised the atrocity ‘in the name of entertainment’ as well as falsely depicting him as a debauched and conniving figure"". Neave was portrayed by Geoffrey Pounsett in ""Nuremberg"" (2000), Dermot Crowley in ""Margaret"" (2009), Nicholas Farrell in ""The Iron Lady"" (2011) and Tim McInnerny in ""Utopia"" (2014). Airey Neave Airey Middleton Sheffield Neave, (23 January 1916 – 30 March 1979) was a British soldier, lawyer and Member of Parliament. During World War II he was the first British prisoner-of-war to succeed in escaping"
"for the Conservative Party at the 1950 election in Thurrock and at Ealing North in 1951. He was elected for Abingdon in a by-election in June 1953, but his career was held back by a heart attack he suffered in 1959. He was a Governor of Imperial College between 1963 and 1971 and was a member of the House of Commons select committee on Science and Technology between 1965 and 1970. Edward Heath, when Chief Whip, was alleged to have told Neave that after he suffered his heart attack his career was finished but in his 1998 autobiography, Heath strongly"
"the stained-glass there. Meanwhile, the old buildings were converted into luxury flats called Westminster Green, which preserve the façade of the original hospital building. The previous buildings in Broad Sanctuary survived until destroyed by a fire in 1950; the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, in a completely different style, now stands on the site. Malvina Longfellow (1889–1962), a silent movie actress of the 1920s, died at the Hospital on 2 November 1962, having been admitted from her flat in South Street, Mayfair. The Conservative Member of Parliament Airey Neave died at the hospital on 30 March 1979, after being badly"
"2017 Westminster attack On 22 March 2017, a terrorist attack took place outside the Palace of Westminster in London, seat of the British Parliament. The attacker, 52-year-old Briton Khalid Masood, drove a car into pedestrians on the pavement along the south side of Westminster Bridge and Bridge Street, injuring more than 50 people, five of them fatally. He then crashed the car into the perimeter fence of the Palace grounds and ran into New Palace Yard, where he fatally stabbed an unarmed police officer. He was then shot by an armed police officer and died at the scene. Police treated"