IRA Brighton bomber 'scouted Labour conference seven years earlier'
IRA Brighton bomber 'scouted Labour conference seven years earlier' Rory Carroll Ireland correspondent © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: John Downing/Getty Images The IRA bomber who almost wiped out Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative cabinet in 1984 secretly scouted a Labour party conference in Brighton seven years earlier, he has disclosed. Patrick Magee surveilled the Brighton conference centre in October 1977 when the IRA sought to hit back at the then Labour government for its policies in Northern Ireland. Magee, who was convicted of murdering five people in th...