‘I can’t listen to my sister Jo Cox speaking 10 years on – it’s too upsetting’

Ten years after the murder of Jo Cox, the Labour MP for Batley and Spen, her sister Kim Leadbeater believes the movement towards kinder, gentler politics was merely an illusion. Leadbeater, now an MP herself, asserts that the political climate has regrettably worsened over the last decade. Jo Cox, a mother of two, was killed by an English nationalist outside a West Yorkshire library in June 2016, leaving a legacy that Leadbeater finds deeply upsetting today.