British - Politician | June 22, 1974 - June 16, 2016
Batley and Spen is a gathering of typically independent, no-nonsense and proud Yorkshire towns and villages.
Jo Cox
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In Afghanistan, I was talking to Afghan elders who were world-weary of a lack of sustained attention from their own government and from the international community to stop problems early.
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I never really grew up being political or Labour. It was just a realisation that where you were born mattered. That how you spoke mattered... who you knew mattered.
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When the bombs rain down, the Syrian Civil Defense rush in.
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We cannot allow voters to fall for the spin that a vote to leave is the only way to deal with concerns about immigration. We can do far more to address both the level and impact of immigration while remaining in the E.U.
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Who can blame desperate parents for wanting to escape the horror that their families are experiencing?
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I live on a big old Dutch barge by Tower Hill on the Thames.
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I fancy myself as a bit of a groover.
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I was an aid worker for a decade and then worked in the voluntary sector in the U.K. on U.K. child poverty and with the NSPCC and Save the Children. But I had worked for ten years with Oxfam.
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I've lived and worked in Brussels and New York at the U.N. and worked all over the world. I would jump on a plane and be in Kabul one week and then Dafur the next.
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