Mps recalled to westminster to pay tribute to killed mp jo cox

Prime Minister David Cameron spoke of how he first met Mrs Cox while she was working for Oxfam in Darfur, western Sudan, in 2006.

Commons Speaker John Bercow agreed to the recall of the House to allow members to commemorate a colleague described as “perfect” by her family.

“We all have a responsibility in this House and beyond not to whip up hatred or sow division”.

Her widower Brendan said they had talked about her first year as an MP during a family trip to Wales two weeks ago and how she loved the job because it “enabled her to make a difference”.

“That is why we assemble here, both to honor Jo and to redouble our dedication to democracy”.

Roses were placed in the empty seat where Cox usually sat in Parliament.

Cox, an ardent supporter of European Union membership, was shot and stabbed in the street in her electoral district in northern England on Thursday.

The 52-year-old appeared via video link from Belmarsh Prison at the Old Bailey on Monday.

Labour lawmaker Holly Lynch, like Cox elected just a year ago, said “she was the heart and soul of these benches, and we are heartbroken”.

Haringey’s MPs are “heartbroken” after the murder of Jo Cox on Thursday. “Her life is an example to us all”.

“The pause in the campaign seems to have lent crucial support to team ‘remain, ‘ with only four days to go until the vote”, said Kathleen Brooks, research director at Gain Capital.

Go Fund Me said the appeal was the largest United Kingdom campaign it has seen, and the third largest globally.

“The “Remain” camp are using these very bad circumstances to try to say that the motives of one deranged, unsafe individual were similar of half the country or perhaps more who believe we should leave the European Union”, he told the BBC.

Top pro-Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage, the leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), accused his rivals of unashamedly using Cox’s death to boost their cause.

Julia Ebner, a policy analyst at counterextremism think tank Quilliam, said the “Leave” campaign faced a dilemma in whether to persist with pushing the issue of immigration – which has been central to many of its arguments – in the aftermath of Cox’s killing.

Former Conservative Party chair Sayeeda Warsi expressed disgust at a U.K. Independence Party poster depicting a crowd of migrants – mostly young men who appeared to be from the Middle East or Afghanistan – walking through Europe.

Her friend, Tory MP and former worldwide development secretary Andrew Mitchell, responded to calls for politicians to receive tighter security in their constituencies, saying: “I do not believe she would want this vile and unspeakable act to change the open and accessible relationship we enjoy with our constituents”.