Jo Cox was the Labor MP for Batley and Spain, where she grew up and lived 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, shouting, “This is for Britain”. She was 41 years old.
His sister Kim Leadbetter 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, she explains. Nosheen Iqbal What lessons can we all learn from this tragedy
