1812 – John
Bellingham is found guilty and sentenced to death by hanging for
the assassination of British Prime Minister Spencer
Perceval
The Prime Minister of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the head of Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom. The Prime Minister and Cabinet (consisting of all the most senior ministers, who are government department heads) are
collectively accountable for their policies and actions to the Monarch, to Parliament, to their political party and ultimately to the electorate. The current Prime Minister, David Cameron, leader of the Conservative Party, was appointed by the Queen on 11 May 2010.
In 1984, Patrick Magee made a serious attempt on the life of Margaret Thatcher in the Brighton Bombing. There were also serious attempts on the lives of King George III, Queen Victoria and King Edward VIII; and the Gunpowder Plot to bomb the Palace of Westminster.
ReplyDeleteHenry Bellingham, the current Conservative MP for North West Norfolk, is distantly related.