Jo Cox would be ‘gutted’ to see election used to spread division, says widower
Brendan Cox said their children will mark the anniversary, and what would have been her coming 50th birthday, by putting on a mini concert.
Brendan Cox said their children will mark the anniversary, and what would have been her coming 50th birthday, by putting on a mini concert.
Kim Leadbeater said the situation now may be worse than it was when Ms Cox was murdered in 2016.
“The reality is that people who are willing to use violent rhetoric, to rile people up and to generate a level of hostility and anger, share responsibility in the consequences of that," Brendan Cox said.
In March 2018, she was sentenced to 36 weeks imprisonment after being convicted of three counts of religiously aggravated harassment.
Kim Leadbeater said she will be talking to local Labour members about standing in the seat her sister represented.
In the email, the pensioner wrote that the result of the EU referendum should be respected - and told Miss Soubry to "remember Jo", adding that she had been "shot and stabbed".
Kim Leadbetter, sister of the murdered Labour MP, spoke out after police in England and Wales recorded 103,379 hate crimes in the last year.
A lawyer representing Rotherham child abuse victims said the PM had “juvenile thinking."
Boris Johnson came in for strong condemnation last night after he claimed in the Commons that the best way to honour murdered MP Jo Cox would be to “get Brexit done”.
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