The Death of Jo Cox, MP
Tue, 2016-06-21 22:19
News Staff
By Tom Haughey
Jo Cox was a young woman with two small children who was elected to Parliament just over a year ago. She had spent the previous decade traveling around the world (often in war zones) working for the international charity Oxfam fighting poverty and oppression. As a natural consequence of that she decided to run for public office as a member of the UK's Labor Party. She was elected and proved adept at bringing the parties together to help people. She was an advocate of immigration and liked to talk about the multiethnic nature of her constituency in West Yorkshire. A day or two earlier she had taken part in a flotilla on the Thames in favor of Britain remaining part of the European Union.