It has been a decade since Batley and a Spanish MP were murdered by a far-right extremist. His sister Kim Leadbeater, who took over his parliamentary seat, shows what lessons still need to be learned.
Jo Cox was the Labor MP for Batley and Spain, where she grew up and where she had known all her life. She was strongly pro-Europe, a passionate campaigner for social justice – and a mother of two young children aged five and three. On 16 June 2016, at the height of a toxic Brexit campaign, Joe was murdered by a far-right extremist. He shot and stabbed her several times outside Birstall Library in West Yorkshire and shouted, “This is for Britain.” She was 41 years old.
His sister Kim Leadbeater and her family established the Jo Cox Foundation in his honour, and took over his former constituency. But a decade later, far-right ideas are increasingly mainstream and far-right violence has become more common, Leadbeater tells WebMD. Nosheen Iqbal What lessons can we all learn from this tragedy?
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