Husband of slain MP Jo Cox says she died for her views

“We need a kinder and gentler politics”, said Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.

Labour’s Rachel Reeves, whose constituency of Leeds West is just a few miles away from Mrs Cox’s, broke down in tears as she remembered her friend of ten years.

A red and a white rose were placed in Cox’s spot on the green Commons benches, and each lawmaker wore a white rose, symbol of her home county of Yorkshire.

Instead, he said that his wife, a feminist who worked closely with Labour Women’s Network, “would have been annoyed” if a man were to replace her.

“All this is a big shock to Parliament”.

Betting houses shortened the odds that Britain would remain in the 28-nation bloc.

The man accused of killing her appeared in a London court Monday via video link. The suspect gave his name in court as “death to traitors, freedom for Britain”.

Financial markets rallied as prospects for the “Remain” side appeared to brighten in the latest surveys, putting it neck-and-neck with the “Leave” side. But we will mend over time, and we will never let Jo leave our lives.

A senior spokesman for the pro-Brexit campaign said it would continue to tackle the most hard subjects such as immigration, but minus a planned appearance by former London Mayor Boris Johnson aboard a hovercraft.

“It is the politics of division and fear, the harking back to incendiary slogans and the rhetoric of “Britain first” that twists patriotism from love of country into an ugly loathing of others”, Kinnock said.

But polling has consistently shown voters sharply divided on the issue, with a significant group undecided.

By contrast, the Remainers – who seemed to be losing ground in the opinion polls until a few days ago – were suffering from the perception that they were too fixed on dry economic statistics, too dispassionate, too bloodless.

Her death brought a shocked pause in campaigning for Britain’s European Union referendum.

Campaigning to date has often been acrimonious, with inflammatory topics such as immigration at the center of the debate.

“What we are seeing here is the prime minister and the remain campaign trying to conflate the actions of one crazed individual with the motives of half of Britain who think we should get back control of our borders and do it sensibly”.

But Cliffe said the mood since the campaign resumed had been “a lot more somber, a lot more calm”.

“I think the European Union referendum has created a heightened environment for it but actually it also pre-existed that”, he said.

Speaking Sunday, Johnson went to lengths to describe himself as “pro-immigration”, saying he was a descendant of Turkish immigrants, and he backed an amnesty for illegal immigrants who had been in the country for 12 years. She was 41 and a mother of two. “No one will want to use this death in any way to justify any of the arguments”.

That said, the shifts also suggest that turnout will be critical, as leave supporters are considered more committed than remain supporters and therefore more likely to vote.

In the aftermath of the stabbing, other politicians expressed concerns for both their personal safety and the health of British democracy.

Ruth Smeeth, who represents Stoke-on-Trent North, said: “For the sake of generations that follow, ours must ensure the politics of hate doesn’t grip our communities”.

Sayeeda Warsi said Monday that moderate voices in the “leave” campaign have been drowned out.

“Fair enough, obviously. But how is this a “defection”?”