Margaret Thatcher’s press secretary forgives bomber who almost killed him

“He couldn’t understand why I would suddenly say, ‘I forgive you.’”

In 1984 an IRA bomb blew Harvey Thomas through the roof of the Grand Hotel in Brighton.

Listen to this timeless message of forgiveness from the man who was Margaret Thatcher’s Press Secretary for her entire time as Prime Minister.

He had previously spent 15 years as Billy Graham’s Crusade Director.

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