  We prove an analogue of the classical Erd\H{o}s-Ko-Rado theorem for
intersecting sets of permutations in finite 2-transitive groups. Given a finite
group G acting faithfully and 2-transitively on the set X, we show that an
intersecting set of maximal size in G has cardinality |G|/|X|. This generalises
and gives a unifying proof of some similar recent results in the literature.
