Jo Cox

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Jo Cox
MP
Member of Parliament
for Batley and Spen
Assumed office
8 May 2015
Preceded by Mike Wood
Majority 6,057 (12.00%)
Personal details
Born 22 June 1974
Batley, England
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Political party Labour
Alma mater University of Cambridge
Website Official website

Helen Joanne Cox[1] (22 June 1974 - 17 June 2016) was a far-left Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. She became the Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of Batley and Spen after winning the seat in the 2015 general election.[2]

Cox was born in Batley, lived in Heckmondwike, and educated at Heckmondwike Grammar School and then Cambridge University, graduating in 1995.[3][4][5]

She was head of policy for Oxfam and was an advisor to Sarah Brown and Baroness Kinnock.[6] She was national chair of Labour Women's Network and a senior advisor to the Freedom Fund, an anti-slavery charity.[3][4]

Cox was one of 36 Labour MPs to nominate Jeremy Corbyn as a candidate in the Labour leadership election of 2015.[7] However, in the election she voted for the Blairite candidate Liz Kendall,[8] and announced in May 2016 that she regretted nominating Corbyn.[9]

In October 2015 she co-authored, with Conservative MP Andrew Mitchell, an article in The Observer arguing that British military forces could help achieve an ethical solution to the conflict in Syria.[10] During that month Cox launched the All Party Parliamentary Friends of Syria group, becoming its chair.[11][12] In the subsequent vote for UK military intervention in Syria she abstained, as she did not consider the intervention to be part part of an effective comprehensive strategy to tackle the Syrian conflict including dealing with President Bashar al-Assad.[5][13] The Syrian Civil War is one of Cox's main campaigning issues.[5]

Cox was married and had two children.[3] They lived on a converted barge moored near Tower Bridge.[5]

Cox was shot fatally on 17th June 2016 shortly before the UK Referendum on EU membership.

See Murder of Jo Cox

References

  1. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 61230. p. 9119. 18 May 2015.
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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Member of Parliament
for Batley and Spen
2015–present		 Incumbent


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