The man arrested over the death of MP Jo Cox is being investigated for potential links to right-wing extremism, according to West Yorkshire Police.
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Cox was killed on Thursday lunchtime outside Birstall public library, where she had been running a constituency surgery.
The BBC understands Nazi regalia was recovered at suspect Tommy Mair’s home.
Prime Minister David Cameron joined the stunned citizens of Birstall in paying tribute to their slain lawmaker, Jo Cox, as they placed flowers and hand-written notes on a memorial and struggled to comprehend how one of their own could have so viciously killed her.
West Yorkshire Police Temporary Chief Constable Dee Collins said police were also looking into the suspect’s link to mental health services.
She said the man arrested, named locally as Mr. Mair, had been examined by two specialist medical practitioners and deemed fit for detention and interview.
It also reports on the suspect’s possible far-right links.
The Conservative party has also said it will not field a candidate in the by-election that will be triggered by Cox’s death.
Meanwhile, an aide told of how mother-of two Mrs Cox’s last words as she lay bleeding in the street were “my pain is too much”.
“Politicians right across the House of Commons – the vast majority are in it for the right reasons”, Mr Miliband said.
Corbyn called Thursday’s killing “an attack on democracy”.
MPs were given advice by police about improving their personal security in the wake of the murder.
Following the MP’s death, her husband Brendan released a statement in which he said: “Jo believed in a better world and she fought for it every day of her life with an energy and a zest for life that would exhaust most people”.
“Above all else Jo was a committed mother who loved her children more than anything else”, he said.
Since 2000, two lawmakers have been attacked and wounded while meeting with constituents.
Other online documentation linked Mair to a subscription to a pro-apartheid publication from South Africa, SA Patriot, and said he was one of its “earliest subscribers and supporters”.
“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.
The Southern Poverty Law Center, a US -based civil rights group that monitors hate groups, said Mair had been a supporter of the National Alliance, “the most unsafe and violent neo-Nazi group in the United States for decades”. The center says Friday that Mair purchased a manual from the group in 1999 that included instructions on how to build a pistol.
Clarke Rothwell, a plumber who runs a cafe near the scene of Thursday’s slaying, said the assailant shouted “Britain first!” several times as he shot and stabbed Cox.
The National Alliance was founded by William Pierce, whose book “The Turner Diaries” has been called a grisly blueprint for a race war. Timothy McVeigh based the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building, which killed 168 people, on a truck-bombing described in the book.
Cox was a Labour Party lawmaker and former aid worker who had championed the cause of Syrian refugees.
In an apparent reference to the European Union referendum campaign, German chancellor Angela Merkel urged British politicians to “draw limits” around the language used in political debate, warning that otherwise “radicalisation will become unstoppable”. Both sides have suspended their campaigns through Saturday following Cox’s killing, although some door-to-door leafleting was expected to resume sooner.
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West Yorkshire Police have not offered a motive for the slaying.
