Editing Airey Neave (section)

==Media depictions==
Neave was portrayed by Geoffrey Pounsett in ''[[Nuremberg (2000 film)|Nuremberg]]'' (2000), [[Dermot Crowley]] in ''[[Margaret (2009 film)|Margaret]]'' (2009), [[Nicholas Farrell]] in ''[[The Iron Lady (film)|The Iron Lady]]'' (2011) (in a piece of [[dramatic licence]] Thatcher is shown in that film as an eyewitness to his death) and [[Tim McInnerny]] in ''[[Utopia (UK TV series)|Utopia]]'' (2014).

In 2014, 35 years after Neave's death, a fictionalised account of Neave's murder was depicted in the [[Channel 4]] drama ''[[Utopia (British TV series)|Utopia]]'', where he was portrayed as a drinker who colluded with spies and whose assassination was perpetrated by [[MI5]]. This led to condemnation of the broadcaster, with [[Norman Tebbit]], a friend and political colleague of Neave, saying "To attack a man like that who is dead and cannot defend himself is despicable".<ref>{{cite web|title=Utopia: Channel 4 'will not change' drama depicting MP's death|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-28284124|website=BBC News|access-date=4 February 2016|date=13 July 2014|archive-date=25 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925164733/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-28284124|url-status=live}}</ref>