Jo Cox’s sister calls for ‘compassion and kindness’ on anniversary of murder

Kim Leadbeater says there is still a lot of work to do on the issues that concerned the MP four years after her death

The sister of Jo Cox has said it is more important than ever that people “pull together with compassion and kindness” on the fourth anniversary of the MP’s murder.

Cox, 41, was shot and stabbed by far-right extremist Thomas Mair on 16 June 2016. She had been the Labour MP for Batley and Spen for just over a year when she was killed by Mair in Birstall, West Yorkshire, part of her constituency.

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Brexit discourse contributed to death of Jo Cox, says bishop

Bishop of Dover, Rose Hudson-Wilkin, says damaging rhetoric has harmed society as a whole

The Church of England’s first black female bishop has said the debate around Brexit damaged society and contributed to the death of the MP Jo Cox.

Rose Hudson-Wilkin, the former chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons, said the arguments around Brexit had had a harmful effect both on parliamentarians and on society as a whole.

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Brexit: Jess Phillips accuses Boris Johnson of using language ‘designed to inflate hatred’ – live news

Prime minister chooses not to attend Commons to answer urgent question on language he used last night

Here is more from what Boris Johnson told Conservative backbenchers at his private meeting with the 1922 Committee.

From my colleague Rowena Mason

Boris Johnson told MPs at 1922 that he would carry on using the phrase surrender bill but did say MPs must all be careful about using language of violence

Boris Johnson left the 1922 to shouts of “Will you apologise?” from journalists - he scuttled off with no comment

In 1922 meeting there was a sombre moment when @PennyMordaunt told MPs she was with @BorisJohnson in 2016 when news came through that Jo Cox had died. She said 'Boris's reaction was so human'.
"It was a moving moment in there," one Tory MP says.

Striking how few Tory MPs leaving 22 Committee with Boris after around 30 mins stopped to chat to reporters compared with the dying days of Theresa May’s premiership. Not many smiling faces either tbh.

Boris Johnson was described as ‘ebullient’ and ‘full of bonhomie’ by two walking out, others looked pretty sullen.

Jeremy Corbyn is speaking on this topic for Labour.

He says it is “extremely disappointing” that Boris Johnson is not here himself to answer the UQ.

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Far-right fundraising not taken seriously by UK, report finds

Government ‘unwilling’ to engage with financing of extremists, says Whitehall thinktank

An “unwillingness” by the UK government to engage with the threat posed by far-right extremists is creating a vacuum in which such groups can flourish, according to a study by a Whitehall thinktank of their fundraising activities.

The report warns that the focus placed on Islamists has meant that counter-terrorist authorities tasked with looking into financing have made little attempt to understand how far-right individuals and groups raise funds.

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