Romford MP’s murdered minister memorial success
Romford MP Andrew Rosindell attended the unveiling of the memorial plaque for Ian Gow, the Tory MP who was tragically murdered by the IRA in 1990.
Mr Gow, who was assassinated in Brighton when a bomb placed under his car exploded, was remembered during a private ceremony held at the House of Commons last Thursday (March 31).
Mr Rosindell fronted a successful campaign, which he begun last August, to secure a plaque to commemorate the former private secretary.
The plaque, unveiled at the service by Mr Gow’s widow, Dame Jane Gow DBE, bears the Gow coat-of-arms.
The plaque is similar to the one erected for the late Conservative Airy Neave who was also murdered by a car bomb in 1979.
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Mr Rosindell felt Mr Gow, the former private secretary to past PM Margaret Thatcher and one of the first to support Mr Rosindell as a candidate, “should be remembered as a man of enormous courage”.
At the ceremony he saluted “a man of principle who was never afraid to say and do what he believed was right for his country”
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