Jo Cox’s murder prompted calls for a ‘kinder, gentler politics’. Why has intolerance prevailed?

The late MP’s family, politicians and academics on the factors they believe have heightened division in the last 10 years

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Ten years on from Jo Cox’s murder, Kim Leadbeater fears that the consensus around “kinder, gentler politics” in the wake of her sister’s death was short-lived.

“Sadly and regrettably, over the last decade things are worse,” she says. Cox, the Labour MP for Batley and Spen and mother of two young children, was murdered outside a library in West Yorkshire in June 2016 by an English nationalist.