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Jo Cox remembered at Sunday church services nationwide

MP Jo Cox was remembered and prayed for across the country at Sunday church services.

The mother-of-two was killed in a street attack in her Batley and Spen constituency in West Yorkshire on Thursday.

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Corbyn: Death of Jo Cox an 'assault on democracy'

Jeremy Corbyn at the vigil. Credit: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire

The death of Jo Cox was an "assault on democracy", Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has said at a vigil

An assault on all of us, an assault on democracy and an assault on freedom of speech.

– Jeremy Corbyn

Mr Corbyn was joined by shadow defence secretary Emily Thornberry, the local Imam, Rabbi, and Christian leaders in condemning the attack on the Labour MP who was shot and stabbed.

The Islington North MP laid flowers and signed a book of condolences at the vigil held on the doorstep of his parliamentary constituency outside Islington Assembly hall in London.

At the service an emotional Ms Thornberry called the attack "shocking" and quoted from a poem by Kurdish writer Zeki Majid called Mothers Day.

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