Kim Leadbetter

barbecues, picnics, iftars, you know, family fun days with face painting and bouncy castles.

It's whatever works for you in your community.

There is an appetite across the nation for people to come together in a really positive way.

And as Jo said, think about the things we've got in common and not the things that we fall out about.

So, look, again, we've spent a lot of time over the last 10 years putting a brave face on it, being really positive about Jo and how brilliant she was and the things that we've done in her name.

And I'm really proud of that work.

What we probably haven't directly addressed has been why Jo was murdered.

And if we reduce Jo's murder to an isolated act...

You know, then we are misunderstanding the context within which it happened.

And we are misunderstanding and misrepresenting the views of the individual who killed Joe.

You know, this is someone who was a far right extremist.

And we have to call extremism out, whatever that looks like.

We have to have an honest conversation about that.

But I think it is a fair point to say the intersection between extremism and loneliness and isolation is very real.

Because if we have communities where people don't feel that they belong, they don't have a sense of identity, they don't feel that anyone's interested in their lives, the sad version of that is that they spend a lot of time on their own and they're not very happy.

But the really dangerous, serious version of that is that they are pushed to the extremes.

And if we don't give people a home and an identity, extremists will.

I think you alluded to it earlier.

After Joe was killed, there was a period where people said all the right things and said, we need to do things differently.

We need more compassion.