Hillsborough were unlawfully killed and that the Liverpool fans behaviour did not contribute to the dangerous situation at the turnstiles. Ingham declined to apologise or respond to the previous comments he made, which led to petitions being created on change.org and petitions.parliament.uk, the official website for government petitions. Comments on Scottish nationalists Ingham suggested Scottish nationalists were being "as greedy as sin", stating that "the only thing that fuelled nationalism was the smell of oil and money in oil", suggesting that any nationalist sentiments were merely a disguised form of greed. Thatcher's papers In March 2011, it was reported by The Independent that Policy chief Sir Keith Joseph stated in public the view that Margaret Thatcher's first year in Downing Street had been "wasted". Joseph's press secretary reported this to Ingham. In his reply, contained in a letter dated 1 December 1980, he said, Thatcher was "quite relaxed about it", adding: "I believe she agrees with Sir Keith but for the sake of the government and confidence in it does not say so." Personal life and death Ingham was knighted in Thatcher's 1990 resignation honours list. Ingham was married to Nancy () for 60 years, until her death in 2017. They had a son. Ingham died on 24 February 2023, at the age of 90. Selected works Yorkshire Greats: The County's Fifty Finest (Dalesman, 2005) Bernard Ingham's Yorkshire Villages (Dalesman, 2005) The Wages of Spin (John Murray, 2003) Kill the Messenger ... Again (Politico's Publishing Ltd, 2003) Bernard Ingham's Yorkshire Castles (Dalesman, 2001) Kill the Messenger (Fontana, 1991) The Slow Downfall of Margaret Thatcher: The Diaries of Bernard Ingham (Biteback, 2019) References External links British Library Sound Archive – Interview with Brendan Bruce (former Director of Communications of the Conservative Party) for his book Images of Power CPBF – Sir Bernard Ingham on P.M. Margaret Thatcher on 14 April 2013 Routledge, Paul, Bumper Book of British Lefties, 2003, Politicos () – provides further information on Ingham's early involvement with the Labour Party 1932 births 2023 deaths British male journalists Press secretaries Academics of Middlesex University People from Hebden Bridge British civil servants Knights Bachelor The Guardian journalists Margaret Thatcher English diarists 20th-century British journalists People from Halifax, West Yorkshire Place of death missing