Brendan Cox on life after an attack: 'Terrorists want us to fall apart'
What terrorists want us to do, is fall apart, to blame each other, to turn on ourselves
Brendan Cox, the husband of murdered MP Jo Cox, has told Good Morning Britain that the country must come together to defeat terrorists.
Of learning about the Manchester attack, Brendan said: “I just felt lost. The scale of it and the supreme evil of it [...] It’s even harder when there’s an attack on this scale because it’s very hard to tell all the stories about those amazing individuals, I think we have a duty to try and do that.”
He added: “I do think there is a moment in our country at the moment where people feel that there is this pressure, that there is this narrative about hatred, that there are events like this that tear us apart, and I always asks myself, what is it the terrorists or the extremists want us to do?
"What they want us to do, what terrorists want us to do, is fall apart, to blame each other, to turn on ourselves. Our response must always be to ask what terrorists want and then do exactly the opposite."
Watch the full interview above to see Brendan talking about coping with loss after an attack, as well as Ben and Kate speaking to Colin Parry, who's son Tim died in an IRA bombing.
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