Jo Cox

“Brexit doesn't guarantee that migration will come down.”

“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.”

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

“I fancy myself as a bit of a groover.”

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

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

“My summer jobs for three years were going to work in my dad's factory and earn a bit of pocket money. I absolutely loved it, and I think I learnt more there than I did at Cambridge, actually, in terms of how hard work is and how tough it is finding a job, keeping a job, managing a job and family and commitments outside of work.”

“Da'esh and Assad are not separate problems.”

“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.”

“My family didn't really have newspapers at home or talk about politics - my family are not political. They were too busy getting on with it - working, looking after kids, trying to pay off the mortgage, all that stuff.”

“I went to Cambridge University and was the first in my family to graduate.”

“I live on a big old Dutch barge by Tower Hill on the Thames.”

“When the bombs rain down, the Syrian Civil Defense rush in.”

“Going to Cambridge was a bit of a culture shock, I was a working class lass from Batley who hadn't been anywhere apart from the odd holiday on the Costa Del Sol.”