Mair was a longtime supporter of the white supremacist National Alliance, the Washington Post reported, citing documents obtained by the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks extremist groups.
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Jo Cox, the 41-year-old Labor Party member of Parliament for Batley and Spen who was killed Thursday, was elected to Parliament for the 1st time last year and swiftly made a name for herself on matters concerning immigration, refugees, and Britain’s membership in the EU.
Tributes have been paid to Labour MP Jo Cox, who was killed in an attack in her constituency today.
One of the many people expressing their condolences was Nathan Cullen, a Canadian member of parliament from British Columbia, who, according to HuffPost Canada, had been friends with Cox since he met her at a leadership conference in Washington three years ago. They said that in 1999 he bought a manual from the NA that included instructions on how to build a pistol.
Mr Cox said his wife “would have no regrets about her life – she lived every day of it to the full”.
Corbyn said Parliament would be recalled from a break on Monday so that lawmakers could pay tribute to Cox.
I will miss her immensely, but above all, my thoughts are with Brendan, their children and the rest of her family.
Temporary chief constable Dee Collins of West Yorkshire Police says counter-terrorism detectives are helping with the investigation.
Campaigning for Britain’s European Union referendum next week was suspended on Friday for a second day as the nation reeled from the murder of a popular pro-Europe MP at the height of a bitterly divisive debate.
A 2006 blog posting attributed to the group, which describes the magazine’s editorial stance as being against multiculturalism, named him as one of its earliest subscribers.
“It’s an attack on democracy, what happened yesterday”.
“She had only been in the House of Commons for a year but in that time it was quite clear she was very able and very pleasant, which is a powerful combination”.
“She tried to help her, she tried to hit (the attacker) with her handbag but he tried to go at her. People came so he followed them and he came back again and shot her again twice”, former Labour councillor Ghulam Maniyar told ITV News.
“It’s hard to comprehend that she won’t be with us anymore”. “I know MPs [members of Parliament] are scared”. Cox is the first serving lawmaker to be killed since Conservative politician Ian Gow was killed by an Irish Republican Army bomb in 1990.
A police officer carries bunches of flowers at the scene of the killing of Labour MP Jo Cox in Birstall near Leeds, U.K., on Thursday.
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Mair’s half-brother, Duane St Louis, said he “had been volunteering at a school for children with disabilities for several years and had never expressed any racist views”, The Guardian reports.
