I spent the summers packing toothpaste at a factory, working where my dad worked, and everyone else had gone on a gap year! Jo Cox Read Quote
The spirit of non-conformity is as prevalent now in my part of west Yorkshire as it was in the time of my two immediate predecessors, Mike Wood and Elizabeth Peacock. Jo Cox Read Quote
I was an aid worker for a decade and then worked in the voluntary sector in the U.K. on U.K. child poverty and with the NSPCC and Save the Children. But I had worked for ten years with Oxfam. Jo Cox Read Quote
Batley and Spen has a high proportion of people working in manufacturing, and we can boast the full range of industries, including high-skilled, precision engineering. We manufacture all sorts, from beds to biscuits and from carpets to lathes. We also have some of the best fish and chips in the country and some of the best curries in the world. Jo Cox Read Quote
Indeed, by refusing to tackle Assad’s brutality, we may actively alienate more of the Sunni population, driving them towards ISIS. Jo Cox Read Quote
I never really grew up being political or Labour. It was just a realisation that where you were born mattered. That how you spoke mattered… who you knew mattered. Jo Cox Read Quote
The government is slowly waking up to the scale of the personal tragedy of delayed autism diagnosis. Jo Cox Read Quote
While we celebrate our diversity, what surprises me time and time again as I travel around the constituency is that we are far more united and have far more in common with each other than things that divide us. Jo Cox Read Quote
