WI: Spencer Perceval not assassinated?

[Mort the Reaper]

Spencer Perceval is remembered for one thing and one thing alone: holding the dubious distinction of being the only Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to be assassinated. A merchant named John Bellingham, angered at the British government's refusal to either intervene when he was imprisoned in Russia or compensate him for his resulting business losses, fatally shot him as he entered the lobby of the House of Commons.

What if this hadn't happened? The how is irrelevant; maybe Bellingham never gets locked up, or maybe the government gives him more help. What I'm more interested in is how his survival changes things.

 

[Tyler96]

My incredibly niche answer is that by changing the upbringing and mental state of his son John Thomas Perceval it is possible that John is never confined as a lunatic and consequently doesn't become one of the foremost lunacy patient rights and law reform advocates of the nineteenth century.