Jo Cox
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Member of Parliament for Batley and Spen |
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In office 8 May 2015 – 16 June 2016 |
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| Preceded by | Mike Wood |
| Succeeded by | Tracy Brabin |
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Helen Joanne Leadbeater 22 June 1974 Batley, England |
| Died | 16 June 2016 (aged 41) Birstall, England |
| Political party | Labour |
| Spouse(s) | Brendan Cox |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater |
Pembroke College, Cambridge London School of Economics |
| Website | jocox |
Helen Joanne "Jo" Cox (née Leadbeater; 22 June 1974 – 16 June 2016) was a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Batley and Spen constituency from her election in May 2015 until her murder in June 2016.
Born in Batley, West Yorkshire, Cox studied Social and Political Sciences at Pembroke College, Cambridge. Working first as a political assistant, she joined the international humanitarian charity Oxfam in 2001, where she rose to become head of policy and advocacy at Oxfam GB in 2005. She was selected to contest the Batley and Spen parliamentary seat after the previous incumbent, Mike Wood, decided not to stand in 2015. She held the seat for Labour with an increased majority. Cox became a campaigner on issues relating to the Syrian Civil War, and founded and chaired the all-party parliamentary group Friends of Syria.
On 16 June 2016, Cox died shortly after being shot and stabbed multiple times in Birstall, where she had been due to hold a constituency surgery. Thomas Mair, a man associated with far-right organisations, was found guilty of her murder five months later and sentenced to life imprisonment with a whole life order.
Cox was born Helen Joanne Leadbeater on 22 June 1974 in Batley, West Yorkshire, England, to Jean, a school secretary, and Gordon Leadbeater, a toothpaste and hairspray factory worker. Raised in Heckmondwike, she was educated at Heckmondwike Grammar School, a state grammar school, where she was head girl.
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