Jo Cox’s murder prompted calls for a ‘kinder, gentler politics’. Why has intolerance prevailed?

Published June 16, 2026 · Category: News

Overview

The late MP’s family, politicians and academics on the factors they believe have heightened division in the last 10 years

Ten years on from Jo Cox’s murder, Kim Leadbeater fears that the consensus around “kinder, gentler politics” in the wake of her sister’s death was short-lived.

Details

“Sadly and regrettably, over the last decade things are worse,” she says. Cox, the Labour MP for Batley and Spen and mother of two young children, was murdered outside a library in West Yorkshire in June 2016 by an English nationalist.

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Originally published at www.theguardian.com.

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