Jo Cox

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Jo Cox has been the Labour Party MP for Batley and Spen since May 2015. [1] She replaced Mike Wood the previous Labour MP who served this constituency from 1997 until he retired in 2015. [2]

Cox retained this Labour safe seat with a majority of 6,057 in the 2015 general election. [1]

Cox passed away on 16 June 2016 after being shot and stabbed following a constituency surgery in West Yorkshire. [3]

Background

Cox started her career as a political adviser to Joan Walley MP and then Glenys Kinnock MEP, before pursuing a career in the charitable sector working for Oxfam, Save the Children and the NSPCC. [4]

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Jo Cox MP www.parliament.uk, accessed 26 May 2015
  2. Jo Cox www.parliament.uk, accessed 26 May 2015
  3. 'Jo Cox MP dead after shooting attack', 16 June 2016, BBC News, accessed 16 June 2016
  4. Jo Cox LinkedIn, accessed 26 May 2015