List of serving British MPs who were assassinated

List of serving British MPs who were assassinated

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Date	Victim	Party	Constituency	Assassin(s)	Assassin's cause	Notes

11 May 1812	Spencer Perceval	Tory	Northampton	John Bellingham	Personal debt	The serving Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; the only British prime minister to be assassinated, shot dead in the lobby of the House of Commons.

6 May 1882	Lord Frederick Cavendish	Liberal	Northern West Riding of Yorkshire	James Carey and others (members of the Irish National Invincibles)	Irish republicanism	The serving Chief Secretary for Ireland; stabbed to death in the Phoenix Park Murders in Dublin.

22 June 1922	Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson, Bt	Ulster Unionist	North Down	Reginald Dunne and Joseph O'Sullivan (members of the Irish Republican Army)	Shot outside his home in Eaton Square, London.

30 March 1979	Airey Neave	Conservative	Abingdon	Members of the Irish National Liberation Army	The Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland; killed in a car bombing outside the Palace of Westminster.

14 November 1981	Rev. Robert Bradford	Ulster Unionist	Belfast South	Members of the Provisional IRA	Shot at a constituents' surgery in Finaghy, Belfast.

12 October 1984	Sir Anthony Berry	Conservative	Enfield Southgate	Members of the Provisional IRA	Killed in the Brighton hotel bombing.

30 July 1990	Ian Gow	Conservative	Eastbourne	Members of the Provisional IRA	Killed by a car bomb near his home in East Sussex.

16 June 2016	Jo Cox	Labour	Batley and Spen	Thomas Mair	Neo-Nazi white supremacism	Shot and stabbed before a constituents' surgery in Birstall, West Yorkshire.

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Spencer Perceval is the only British prime minister to be assassinated, having been shot on 11 May 1812 by John Bellingham, for his debt.

final_sentence: Spencer Perceval is the only British prime minister to be assassinated, having been shot on 11 May 1812 by John Bellingham, for his debt.