Jo Cox

Quick Facts

Full Name	Jo Cox
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Jun 22, 1974(1974-06-22)
Age	50
Date Of Death	2016-06-16
Birthplace	Batley Carr
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Gemini

Jo Cox Biography

Jo Cox is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on June 22, 1974 in Batley Carr, England, United Kingdom. Member of the Parliamentary Assembly in Batley and Spen as part of the British Labour Party who only was in office for a year before her death in 2016. The tragically killed politician was being stabbed and shot.

Her husband was an advisor for Her husband worked as an adviser to Gordon Brown..

Helen Joanne Cox (née Leadbeater; 22 June 1974 – 16 June 2016) was a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Batley and Spen from her election in May 2015 until her murder in June 2016. She was a member of the Labour Party.

Four hours after the incident, West Yorkshire Police announced that Cox had died of her injuries shortly after being admitted to Leeds General Infirmary. She was the first sitting MP to be killed since the Conservative Party’s Ian Gow, who was killed by a Provisional IRA car bomb in July 1990, and the first MP to be seriously assaulted since Stephen Timms, who was stabbed by Roshonara Choudhry in an attempted assassination in May 2010. A memorial service was held at St Peter’s Church in Birstall the following day.

She was married and had two kids along with Brendan Cox. Her mother was secretary, while her father was employed in factories.

Jo Cox Net Worth

Jo Cox is one of the richest Politician from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jo Cox 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She rose to the position of director of advocacy, policy and policy for the human rights charity Oxfam GB. She graduated from Pembroke College, Cambridge.

She was the founder and chair of the an all-party parliamentary committee Friends of Syria.

Cox was born Helen Joanne Leadbeater on 22 June 1974 in Batley, West Yorkshire, England, to Jean, a school secretary, and Gordon Leadbeater, a toothpaste and hairspray factory worker. Raised in Heckmondwike, she was educated at Heckmondwike Grammar School, a state grammar school, where she was head girl. During summers, she worked packing toothpaste. Cox studied at Pembroke College, Cambridge, initially studying Archaeology and Anthropology before switching to Social and Political Science, graduating in 1995. She later studied at the London School of Economics.

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Who is Jo Cox Dating?

According to our records, Jo Cox married to Brendan Cox. As of December 1, 2023, Jo Cox’s is not dating anyone.

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A street, formerly Rue Pierre–Étienne Flandin after Pierre-Étienne Flandin, in Avallon, a town in the Yonne département of France, was renamed Rue Jo Cox in May 2017. In Brussels, a square beside the Ancienne Belgique concert hall was renamed to Place Jo Cox / Jo Cox Plein in September 2018.

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Jo Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Jo Cox celebrates birthday on June 22 of every year.

Cox was nominated by the Labour Party to contest the Batley and Spen seat being vacated by Mike Wood in the 2015 general election. She was selected as its candidate from an all-women shortlist. The Batley and Spen seat was a Conservative marginal between 1983 and 1997, but is now considered to be a safe seat for Labour, and Cox won the seat with 43.2% of the vote, increasing Labour’s majority to 6,051. Cox made her maiden speech in the House of Commons on 3 June 2015, using it to celebrate her constituency’s ethnic diversity, while highlighting the economic challenges facing the community and urging the government to rethink its approach to economic regeneration. She was one of 36 Labour MPs who nominated Jeremy Corbyn as a candidate in the Labour leadership election of 2015, but said she had done so to get him on the list and encourage a broad debate. In the election she voted for Liz Kendall, and announced after the local elections on 6 May 2016 that she and fellow MP Neil Coyle regretted nominating Corbyn.