Jo Cox’s murder prompted calls for a ‘kinder, gentler politics’. Why has intolerance prevailed?
The late MP’s family, politicians and academics on the factors they believe have heightened division in the last 10 years How the murder of my
The late MP’s family, politicians and academics on the factors they believe have heightened division in the last 10 years How the murder of my sister changed Britain – podcast Ten years on from Jo Cox’s murder, Kim Leadbeater fears that the consensus around “kinder, gentler politics” in the wake of her sister’s death was short-lived.
“Sadly and regrettably, over the last decade things are worse,” she says. Cox, the Labour MP for Batley and Spen and mother of two young
children, was murdered outside a library in West Yorkshire in June 2016 by an English nationalist. Continue reading...
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