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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

The Guardian - UK

Murdered MP Jo Cox would be deeply concerned by divisions in UK, says sister

Kim Leadbeater says it is crucial to ‘push back’ on divisive rhetoric and dangerous language.

Evening Standard

Kim Leadbeater calls for unity on anniversary of sister Jo Cox’s murder

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Division in UK probably worse now than in run-up to Brexit, says Jo Cox’s sister Kim Leadbeater

Labour MP warns of voices fanning hatred on eve of 10th anniversary of the murder of her sister, the MP Jo Cox

The Guardian - UK

Jo Cox’s sister warns of UK’s ‘divisive rhetoric and dangerous language’ ten years after MP’s murder

‘You’ve got to decide if you want to take the debate forward and you want to work on solutions’, says Kim Leadbeater, a decade after her sister’s murder

The Independent UK

MP reigniting assisted dying debate says faith in democracy must be restored

Lauren Edwards said she was ‘really disappointed and quite frustrated’ when the Bill ran out of time in the House of Lords.

Evening Standard

Attempt to reintroduce assisted dying bill sparks new Labour civil war

Rochester and Strood MP Lauren Edwards will reintroduce Kim Leadbeater’s highly controversial Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill which would allow assisted deaths in England and Wales

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Assisted dying Bill to be reintroduced as MP urges peers ‘not to block it’

Labour MP Lauren Edwards has launched a fresh bid to legalise assisted dying, after the Bill fell in the Lords in April.

Evening Standard

Jo Cox’s sister: ‘Brexit campaign made us see each other as enemies. We’ve never recovered’

Exclusive: Speaking ahead of the 10th anniversary of the MP’s death in June 2016, Kim Leadbeater said it would have been ‘very easy’ for her ‘to use the anger I felt to sow division’ – as she urges people to remember her sibling’s message of hope

The Independent UK

Do not use your anger to create chaos, pleads sister of murdered MP

Labour MP Kim Leadbeater said it was not right to ‘vilify an entire community or an entire group of people who might not look like you do’.

Evening Standard

MPs who backed assisted dying bill don’t expect it to return via act that bypasses Lords

Prominent backers including Louise Haigh say they would not support using Parliament Acts to pass bill

The Guardian - UK

Assisted dying bill could return after ballot for private member’s bills

Two MPs who came in top five of draw backed Kim Leadbeater’s bill in the Commons

The Guardian - UK

‘I want my choice’: terminally ill people join Rankin to demand revival of assisted dying bill

British photographer collaborates with Dignity in Dying in run-up to private member’s ballot, after stalling of England and Wales bill in Lords

The Guardian - UK

UK House of Lords accused of 'obstructionism' as time runs out on assisted dying bill

MPs in the House of Commons had backed legalising euthanasia for adults who have been given less than six months to live and can clearly express a wish to die, in a historic vote last June.

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The Guardian - UK

MPs vow to bring back assisted dying bill after ‘undemocratic’ Lords block

Labour’s Kim Leadbeater tells of plan to table identical bill that peers would be unable to stop

The Guardian - UK

My assisted dying bill has a democratic mandate – the Lords who blocked it today do not

There is a way to bring this back to parliament. We owe it to the brave terminally ill people who have been so let down to try, says Labour MP Kim Leadbeater

Evening Standard

Assisted dying Bill runs out of time but supporters vow fight is not over

The Bill had proposed allowing adults in England and Wales to apply for an assisted death.

Evening Standard

Terminally ill ‘bewildered’ at failure of assisted dying Bill, says chief backer

The Bill will fall at the end of Friday’s session.

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The Independent UK

The assisted dying Bill has run out of time – but could still become law. Here’s how

More than 1,200 suggested changes were tabled in the Lords to the Bill

The Independent UK

Kim Leadbeater warns UK ‘not in a better place’ on political violence 10 years since sister Jo Cox’s murder

Jo Cox's sister Kim Leadbeater has warned that the UK is "not in a better place" on political violence 10 years since the Labour MP was murdered.

Evening Standard

Assisted dying Bill to fall but issue not going away, say campaigners

A letter from some peers warned the ‘vital issue, which has wide public support, will not go away until it is resolved’.

Evening Standard

Failure of assisted dying Bill ‘bitter disappointment and lets down terminally ill’

The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill is expected to fall on Friday in its last scheduled debate before the end of this parliamentary session.

Evening Standard

Safety initiative right but depressing, says sister of murdered MP Jo Cox

Labour MP Kim Leadbeater told the Press Association civility in public life was in a worse state than when her sister was killed 10 years ago.

The Guardian - UK

House of Lords has ‘signed its own death warrant’ by stalling assisted dying bill, says MP

Kim Leadbeater says people are ‘extremely angry’ at delaying tactics of peers as time runs out to pass bill

Evening Standard

UK deaths at Dignitas at second-highest level in two decades

The latest figures come as a proposed law for England and Wales to legalise assisted dying returns for debate in the House of Lords on Friday.

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