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The assassination of Prime Minister Spencer Perceval in 1812 in the lobby of the House of Commons

The previous Palace of Westminster was also Flats for rent London the site of a prime-ministerial assassination in 1812.[32] While in the lobby of the House of Commons, on his way to a parliamentary inquiry, Spencer Perceval was shot and killed by a Liverpool merchant adventurer, John Bellingham. Perceval remains the only British Prime Minister to have been assassinated.

On 17 June 1974, a 9-kilogram (20 lb) bomb planted by the Provisional IRA exploded in Westminster Hall.[33] Another attack took place on 30 March 1979, when Airey Neave, a Flats for rent London prominent Conservative politician, was killed by a car bomb as he drove out of the Palace's new car park.[34] Both the Irish National Liberation Army and the Provisional IRA claimed responsibility for the murder; security forces believe the former was responsible.

The Palace has also been the site of a number of acts of politically Flats for rent London motivated "direct action". In 1970 a canister of tear gas was thrown into the Chamber of the House of Commons to protest against conditions in Northern Ireland. In 1978 Yana Mintoff and another dissident threw manure.[35] Concern about such attacks and a possible chemical or biological attack led to the construction of a glass screen across the Strangers' Gallery in early 2004.

The new barrier does not cover the side galleries, which are sometimes termed the "distinguished strangers' gallery", and in May 2004 protesters from Fathers 4 Justice attacked Prime Minister Tony Blair Flats for rent London with flour bombs from this part, after obtaining admission by bidding for a place in the visitors' gallery in a charity auction.[36]

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Subsequently, rules on admission to the visitors' galleries were changed, and Flats for rent London now individuals wishing to sit in the galleries must first obtain a written pass from a Member certifying that that individual is personally known to them. In September of the same year, five protesters opposed to the proposed ban on fox hunting disrupted the proceedings of the House of Commons by running into the Chamber.[37] Flats for rent London

[edit] Rules and traditions

[edit] Eating, drinking and smoking
Westminster Palace at night

The Palace has accumulated many rules and traditions over the centuries. Smoking has not Flats for rent London been allowed in the chambers of the House of Lords and the Commons since the 17th century.[38] As a result, Members may take snuff instead and the doorkeepers still keep a snuff-box for this purpose.