Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 1:35 pm on 21 June 2016.
Thank you, Presiding Officer. I make no pretence to have known Jo Cox, but the events last Thursday mortified us all. Pure evil visited Jo Cox and her family last week, and her constituency, when she was going about her job, which she cared passionately about, and I think she said, in her own words, it was a job that she thought was a job for which she’d been groomed for life, to achieve success for the communities that she represented and the causes that she held dear. And she certainly took those causes right to the heart of power in Parliament and Government, and worked across the political divide, and proved where politicians do work together, we actually achieve far more.
One thing we must remember is that a family today will not feel the warmth and love of a mother and also a wife, and they are the ones who have lost the most in all this, but we as a society are far poorer from losing such as individual as Jo Cox, and we should never let the flame that she lit go out, and we should stand up for the beliefs and causes that she fought for and make sure that the evil that visited this country, her constituency, and her family last week, does not triumph.