The community spirit of Jo Cox

“But this isn’t just about Jo, this is about what Jo was trying to do. She would have loved to have been involved in something like this.”

Zoe Chadwick, who went to the MP for help when she was struggling to get support for her young autistic son Jacob, said: “She listened and then she did something about it.”

Mr Cox said his wife would have loved to see communities coming together like this. “It was absolutely at the heart of who she was,” he said. “She would have been here bouncing on the bouncy castle with the kids.”

Above: Brendan Cox, the widower of murdered MP Jo Cox (left) with Kim Leadbeater, Jo’s sister and founder of the MoreInCommon movement at the Great Get Together event in Heckmondwike, West Yorks, yesterday