How the murder of my sister, Jo Cox, changed Britain – podcast
It’s a decade since the MP for Batley and Spen was killed by a far right extremist. Her sister, Kim Leadbetter, who took over her parliamentary seat, explains what lessons are still to be learnt
Jo Cox was a Labour MP for Batley and Spen, the place she’d grown up and known her whole life. She was firmly pro-Europe, a passionate campaigner for social justice - and the mother of two young children, five and three years old. On the 16th of June 2016, at the height of a toxic Brexit campaign, Jo 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.
Her sister Kim Leadbetter and her family set up the Jo Cox foundation in her honour, and took on her former constituency. But a decade later, with far-right ideas increasingly mainstream and far-right violence more common, she tells Nosheen Iqbal what lessons we all can learn from the tragedy
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