Referendum: Remain campaigners remember Yorkshire MP Jo Cox

Stronger In campaigners have held a minute's silence in honour of Labour MP Jo Cox.
By The Newsroom
Published 24th Jun 2016, 01:58 BST
Updated 25th Aug 2016, 20:47 BST
A polling station being used in the EU referendum at Batley Town Hall in the constituency Labour MP Jo Cox. Mrs Cox, 41, died after being shot and stabbed in the street outside her constituency surgery in Birstall, near Leeds.A polling station being used in the EU referendum at Batley Town Hall in the constituency Labour MP Jo Cox. Mrs Cox, 41, died after being shot and stabbed in the street outside her constituency surgery in Birstall, near Leeds.
A polling station being used in the EU referendum at Batley Town Hall in the constituency Labour MP Jo Cox. Mrs Cox, 41, died after being shot and stabbed in the street outside her constituency surgery in Birstall, near Leeds.

Former frontbencher Chuka Umunna said the much-loved politician had been “utterly determined” to keep Britain in the European Union.

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During a referendum results event at the Royal Festival Hall in London, Mr Umunna said: “She was utterly determined that we get the right result this evening and that this campaign, the Remain campaign, wins the referendum because it spoke to everything that she was about and that she believed in.”

He added: “We thought it was only fitting this evening that we take a moment out and take a minute out to remember Jo and remember that she is absolutely central to what we are trying to do this evening.”