Lessons from the Murder of Jo Cox
En resumen
- Jo Cox, Labour MP for Batley and Spen, was murdered by a far-right extremist on June 16, 2016, during the Brexit campaign.
- Her sister, Kim Leadbeater, now represents her constituency and discusses the lessons learned from the tragedy as far-right extremism becomes more mainstream.
Resumen generado por IA
Jo Cox was the Labour MP for Batley and Spen, the place she had grown up and had known her whole life. She was firmly pro-Europe, a passionate campaigner for social justice, and the mother of two young children, aged five and three. On 16 June 2016, at the height of a toxic Brexit campaign, she was murdered by a far-right extremist. He shot and stabbed her several times outside Birstall library in West Yorkshire, shouting: “This is for Britain.” She was 41.
Her sister, Kim Leadbeater, and her family set up the Jo Cox Foundation in her honour, and Leadbeater took on her former constituency. A decade later, with far-right ideas increasingly mainstream and far-right violence more common, Leadbeater tells Nosheen Iqbal what lessons we can learn from the tragedy.
