Wise words of MP Jo Cox are today more meaningful than ever

Four years ago today we lost Batley and Spen MP, Jo Cox.
Kim Leadbeater, sister of Jo Cox, speaks about her efforts to keep her sister's values alive and raise money for charity. 
2nd March 2016.
Picture Jonathan GawthorpeKim Leadbeater, sister of Jo Cox, speaks about her efforts to keep her sister's values alive and raise money for charity. 
2nd March 2016.
Picture Jonathan Gawthorpe
Kim Leadbeater, sister of Jo Cox, speaks about her efforts to keep her sister's values alive and raise money for charity. 2nd March 2016. Picture Jonathan Gawthorpe

Her murder at the hands of Thomas Mair rocked the country, leaving her family bereft and bewildered.

We came to learn of the killer’s obsession with intolerance and with race hate ideas.

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Contrast those with the thoughts and feelings of Jo’s sister, Kim Leadbeater, as she reflects with us today on all of the amazing work that has since been done in Jo’s memory.

Most striking about Kim’s reflections is her concern about the here and now, as Britain and the rest of the world faces up to the evil that is intolerance.

Kim and her family more than most understand the toxicity of discrimination and the grief it brings.

Just a few days after thousands took to Millenium Square to declare on bended knee that Black Lives Matter, the powerful words taken from Jo’s maiden Parliamentary speech echo louder and more meaningfully than ever: there is more that unites us than divides us.

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