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Kim Leadbetter

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Today in Focus
How the murder of my sister, Jo Cox, changed Britain

You've got choices to some degree.

Today in Focus
How the murder of my sister, Jo Cox, changed Britain

And we chose to try and create as much positive energy and action as possible because that is who Jo was.

Today in Focus
How the murder of my sister, Jo Cox, changed Britain

And that is who we are as a family.

Today in Focus
How the murder of my sister, Jo Cox, changed Britain

And we also did not want our community and our country to be defined by Jo's murder because that isn't what our country looks like.

Today in Focus
How the murder of my sister, Jo Cox, changed Britain

And that isn't who we are.

Today in Focus
How the murder of my sister, Jo Cox, changed Britain

That was one individual, one heinous individual who committed a horrific act.

Today in Focus
How the murder of my sister, Jo Cox, changed Britain

But that isn't what Batley & Spen was like.

Today in Focus
How the murder of my sister, Jo Cox, changed Britain

That isn't what the most of this country is like.

Today in Focus
How the murder of my sister, Jo Cox, changed Britain

And we needed to show that and we needed to tell those stories.

Today in Focus
How the murder of my sister, Jo Cox, changed Britain

So the foundation has worked on lots of different issues.

Today in Focus
How the murder of my sister, Jo Cox, changed Britain

It started really looking at things that Jo had worked on.

Today in Focus
How the murder of my sister, Jo Cox, changed Britain

So the money that was donated, we gave to three different organisations.

Today in Focus
How the murder of my sister, Jo Cox, changed Britain

We gave to Hope Not Hate that tackle far-right extremism.

Today in Focus
How the murder of my sister, Jo Cox, changed Britain

We gave it to the White Helmets in Syria because Jo had done a lot of work on the conflict in Syria.

Today in Focus
How the murder of my sister, Jo Cox, changed Britain

And we gave money to the Royal Voluntary Service who work on loneliness.

Today in Focus
How the murder of my sister, Jo Cox, changed Britain

So we set the foundation up, continuing a lot of those themes of work, particularly on loneliness.

Today in Focus
How the murder of my sister, Jo Cox, changed Britain

And this was an issue that Jo had started working on.

Today in Focus
How the murder of my sister, Jo Cox, changed Britain

She set up the Commission on Loneliness when she was in Parliament.

Today in Focus
How the murder of my sister, Jo Cox, changed Britain

That work was then continued on a cross-party basis with Seema Kennedy from the Conservative Benches.

Today in Focus
How the murder of my sister, Jo Cox, changed Britain

But then the other big thing that the foundation does is the Great Get Together.