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Person.png Airey Neave   SpartacusRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(politician)
Airey Neave.jpg
BornAirey Middleton Sheffield Neave
1916-01-23
Knightsbridge, London
Died1979-03-30 (Age 63)
Westminster Hospital, London
NationalityBritish
Alma materMerton College, Oxford
ReligionChurch of England
Children3
SpouseDiana Neave
Victim ofassassination
PartyConservative

Employment.png Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Wikipedia-icon.png

In office
4 March 1974 - 30 March 1979
Preceded byMerlyn Rees

Employment.png Member of Parliament for Abingdon

In office
30 June 1953 - 30 March 1979

Airey Neave was the first British officer to escape Colditz, who later became a conservative MP. He has been called "the most senior politician ever to have been assassinated". He was a close friend of Margaret Thatcher.

Assassination

This happened in Whitehall by a car bomb and no one has been convicted as his murderer.[1] It was blamed at the time on Irish terrorists, though others have suggested that it was motivated by his plans to restructure MI5 and MI6. He is reputed to have remarked that "There has been serious corruption" and that "there is going to be cleaning of the stables".

The commercially-controlled media condemned a drama Utopia which suggested that he was not killed by the INLA as the official narrative states.[2]

References

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