Jo Cox Quotes

British - Politician | June 22, 1974 - June 16, 2016

The spirit of non-conformity is as prevalent now in my part of west Yorkshire as it was in the time of my two immediate predecessors, Mike Wood and Elizabeth Peacock.

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I spent the summers packing toothpaste at a factory, working where my dad worked, and everyone else had gone on a gap year!

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Assad's brutality has nurtured extremism and been its main recruiting sergeant.

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Brexit doesn't guarantee that migration will come down.

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Our communities have been deeply enhanced by immigration, be it of Irish Catholics across the constituency or of Muslims from Gujarat in India or from Pakistan, principally from Kashmir.

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It is simply not credible to tackle child poverty without acknowledging the worst issue - a lack of money.

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The government is slowly waking up to the scale of the personal tragedy of delayed autism diagnosis.

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I have long argued that ISIS and Assad are not separate problems to be chosen between, but are action and reaction, cause and symptom, chicken and egg: impossible to untangle no matter how much we might like to.

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Immigration is a legitimate concern, but it's not a good reason to leave the E.U.

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Batley and Spen has a high proportion of people working in manufacturing, and we can boast the full range of industries, including high-skilled, precision engineering. We manufacture all sorts, from beds to biscuits and from carpets to lathes. We also have some of the best fish and chips in the country and some of the best curries in the world.

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It is time to give city and county regions the powers and resources they need to promote growth, and I will happily work with all of those who are genuinely committed to building an economic powerhouse in the north.

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Yorkshire folk are not fools: talk about devolving power to cities and regions, while simultaneously stripping them of the resources to deliver and subjecting northern councils such as Kirklees to the harshest of cuts, is not compatible with a worthy commitment to building a northern powerhouse to drive growth and prosperity.

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