Margaret Thatcher’s AG woke from surgery screaming ‘we must kill’ Ian Paisley

State Papers 1988: Michael Havers said he ‘cannot explain’ the outburst after operation

  Michael Havers - later to become Lord Havers - who served as attorney  general to Margaret Thatcher’s  Conservative government. Photograph: Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Michael Havers - later to become Lord Havers - who served as attorney general to Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government. Photograph: Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Margaret Thatcher’s chief legal adviser woke from heart surgery screaming “we must kill” Ian Paisley, newly-declassified files reveal.

Documents marked “confidential” and just released into the National Archives show a diplomat based at the Irish embassy in London reported back to Dublin about a meeting with Conservative MP Ian Gow, a close personal friend of Thatcher who was later assassinated by the IRA, and then attorney general Michael Havers.

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