Parliament has been in recess ahead of this week’s national vote on leaving the EU.
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The leave campaign headed by former London Mayor Boris Johnson also turned to the influential Sunday newspapers to press its case.
Leading Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage said Cox’s murder had affected the Leave campaign’s rise. He said he “shuddered” when he saw it.
In a newspaper column, he said Cox – who favoured European Union membership, and wanted Britain to do more to help Syrian refugees – offered a hopeful vision for Britain while Farage wants to divide the country, not unite it. He was remanded in custody and is due to appear in court again on Monday.
Tommy Mair, 52, spoke only to confirm his name and was remanded into custody until Thursday.
Both sides suspended campaigning until Sunday out of respect for Cox, amid fears that the political fury unleashed by the European Union campaign was somehow connected to the killing.
Both that Survation poll, and the first of two YouGov polls (44-43 in favor of Remain) out yesterday covered the period after Jo Cox’s death (the other YouGov poll did not, and had Leave 44-42).
“I’m not too sure to be honest about why people would want to leave, we’ve been in the European Union for such a long time”. A deeply divided party will likely want him to leave long before that, so that a new leader can help heal the referendum’s wounds, and dissident Conservative lawmakers could trigger a no-confidence vote to oust Cameron. “The ending of this story, whether happy or not, will be written by us”.
“The Remainers are now desperately trying to suggest that anyone who wants to Leave is somehow against the spirit of modern Britain; against openness, tolerance, decency”. The pound surged and Europe’s major stock markets in London, Frankfurt and Paris gained more than three percent in morning trade.
But polling has consistently shown voters sharply divided on the issue, with a significant group undecided.
“In a sense, the populists have already won, because they are setting the agenda for the mainstream parties”, said Heather Grabbe, a visiting fellow at the European University Institute in Florence.
Britain’s long and hard referendum campaign has resumed in earnest after a three-day halt caused by the killing of Labour Party lawmaker Jo Cox in a brazen knife and gun attack. I think we stay and fight.
Criticism has focused on a poster unveiled by the Leave campaign showing a queue of migrants and refugees on the border of Slovenia, with the words “Breaking point” in large red letters.
But Cliffe said the mood since the campaign resumed had been “a lot more somber, a lot more calm”.
The shocking killing of Cox, 41, has cast a shadow over the referendum but it is not clear what impact, if any, it will have on the result.
“The thing at the moment, and I think it’s been said everywhere, is there is no proper information on it. People follow what people say without having a proper experience of the EU”. Farage has dismissed criticism of the poster and denied stirring hatred, but conceded Sunday that the murder of Cox may have tempered the upward march of his campaign.
Michael Gove, a senior spokesman for the rival “Leave” campaign, played down the role of the referendum in the future of the economy, and said that leaving would actually improve Britain’s economic position.
“Toxic, divisive (and) xenophobic political campaigning should have no place in a liberal democracy”, she wrote on Twitter.
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Leave campaigners say the United Kingdom needs to limit migration to ease pressure on housing, welfare, jobs and wages.
