MOSCOW (Sputnik) – UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn described the murder of the party's lawmaker Jo Cox as an act of political violence during the meeting of the House of Commons on Monday.
"The horrific act that took her from us was an attack on democracy and on our whole country has been in shock and saddened by it… Her community and the whole country has been united in grief and united in rejecting the well of hatred that killed her in what increasingly appears to be an act of extreme political violence," Corbyn said.
Cox, 41, a Labour lawmaker and pro-Remain campaigner, was shot and stabbed in the street on Thursday as she held a regular meeting with her constituency in West Yorkshire, a week before the United Kingdom is scheduled to vote in a referendum on whether it should stay in or leave the European Union.
