Jo Cox

Christmas, so the song goes, can be the most wonderful time of the year, but it can also the loneliest. Now the government has been urged to adopt a national strategy to tackle what’s being called a “loneliness epidemic”. A cross-party commission set up by the MP Jo Cox before she was murdered says that…

Brendan Cox, the husband of murdered Labour MP Jo Cox, has accused Donald Trump of spreading hate. His wife was murdered by a far-right extremist who reportedly shouted “Britain First” while attacking her. The group Britain First have always denied involvement in the murder.

The trial of Jo Cox’s killer may have ended – but for the people in this constituency the healing has a long way to go. The Labour MP was much loved here, but her murder came when Britain was on the cusp of monumental change.

Interview with Alison McGovern, a Labour MP and close friend of Jo Cox.

The police said it amounted to an act of terrorism. Thomas Mair, the neo-Nazi who shot and stabbed the MP Jo Cox here in her West Yorkshire constituency exactly one week before the EU referendum, was jailed for life at the Old Bailey today for her murder.