Margaret Thatcher: The IRA's plot to kill the 'Iron Lady' in the Brighton Bombing

Margaret Thatcher: The IRA's plot to kill the 'Iron Lady' in the Brighton Bombing

By Belfast Telegraph

In 1984, a massive explosion rocked the Grand Hotel in Brighton, where the Tory party conference was being held. The bombing went down in history as one of the most audacious attacks on the British government since the Gunpowder Plot. The target, Margaret Thatcher and her entire cabinet. In the new book, Killing Thatcher, author and journalist Rory Carroll takes a look back at the attack and the consequences.

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