Culture wars ‘deeply dangerous’, Warsi warns at Jo Cox event

Sayeeda Warsi during the state opening of parliament last week. She said Jo Cox’s philosophy was in ‘stark contrast’ to culture wars. Photograph: WPA/Getty Images

Culture wars are “not just an ugly political phenomenon … they’re deeply dangerous”, Sayeeda Warsi has told the fifth annual Jo Cox memorial lecture at the University of Cambridge.

The lecture was set up to memorialise the Labour MP who was shot and stabbed in a politically motivated murder in June 2016. Cox was struck while campaigning in her Yorkshire constituency during the European referendum campaign, in which she supported remain.