Tributes are pouring in and remembrance vigils are planned after Labour MP Jo Cox was shot and stabbed to death on Thursday outside her West Yorkshire constituency. Her grieving husband has called on people to fight “the hatred that killed her” as detectives investigated whether her killing was politically motivated.
A committed feminist, she previously worked for Oxfam as an aid worker and later as head of policy. Max Lawson, Oxfam’s current head of policy, who previously worked for Cox, said: “Jo was a brilliant committed activist for social justice with boundless energy and kindness who made a huge contribution at Oxfam.”
She also chaired the Labour Women’s Network, which works to try to get more women into parliament, by offering them training. In little more than a year in parliament, Cox had begun to make a name for herself as a campaigning MP, unafraid to take on her own party’s leadership, including a powerful intervention in the debate over whether Labour should back military action in Syria.
Cox was dedicated to her constituents and serving her community in Batley and Spen. By the evening of her death, floral tributes were being laid at the cordon outside the library and small groups of the MPs’ constituents were gathering in silence.
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