“If Jo Cox had not been murdered, I would not be here today”

The Labor member had been killed in his Yorkshire riding on the eve of the referendum on Brexit. After hesitation, his sister has presented it and just been elected. Kim Leadbeater intends to regain the trust of Labor voters.

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“How are you? Follow me, this place is a real labyrinth, I still lose!” The Labor member Kim Leadbeater welcomes without the corridors of the Westminster Palace, is raised on the millennium framework From Westminster Hall, reported with the St Mary Undercroft Chapel, one of the many jewels of the British Parliament.

Elected There are barely six months in the district of Batley and Spen (in northern England), thanks to a partial election provoked by the departure of another Labor, Tracy Brabin (became Mayor of West Yorkshire), she is still in the discovery phase. “I saw a new chapter of my life, strange and amazing”, slips the elected.

Long blond hair, friendly, Kim Leadbeater is an energy ball. But much more: at age 45, this former physical education teacher is a symbol of resilience. She is Jo Cox’s sister, the murdered Labor MP in Batley on June 16, 2016, by a white supremacist, while she went to her parliamentary permanence.

Kim Leadbeater was elected under the same working colors and in the same riding as his sister, two years old his elder. “If Jo had not been murdered, I would not be here today. I’ve always been interested in politics, but I never thought about making my career. Jo and I like it a lot, we wanted Both help people. I have first done through education. “

” It’s ridiculous, it’s not a question! “

The two sisters, of modest origin (father worker in a cosmetic plant, mother secretary in a school) are native to this corner of Yorkshire. Jo, deemed more introverted and brilliant pupil, integrates the University of Cambridge, tastes the policy very quickly, chaining the positions of parliamentary assistant, then embraces a career in the humanitarian (for Oxfam and Save the Children), multiplying the international experiences. Elected MP In 2015, she is a passionate lawyer of the European Union during the Brexit referendum campaign – and was killed a week before the ballot, her disappearance creating intense emotion in the UK, in a political atmosphere boosted.

Kim Leadbeater had chosen to stay in Yorkshire, near their parents, and create his fitness company. The death of Jo is a blast for this very welded family: Kim engages with his parents in the Jo Cox Foundation, in order to make the memory of the member live (through local and national campaigns against hatred or loneliness) . Resume the political torch of his big sister has not been an easy decision – she was not even militant of the plowing before getting on the ranks, in May, when relatives of Jo Cox suggest to get started.

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