How the murder of my sister, Jo Cox, changed Britain – podcast

Jo Cox was the Labour MP for Batley. Spen, the place she had grown up and had known her whole life. She was firmly pro-Europe, a passionate campaigner for social justice,. 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. stabbed her several times outside Birstall library in West Yorkshire, shouting: “This is for Britain.” She was 41.

Her sister, Kim Leadbeater,. 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. far-right violence more common, Leadbeater tells Nosheen Iqbal what lessons we can learn from the tragedy.