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EU referendum live: Juncker says UK will not get better deal if it votes to leave
Jo Cox tributes at the More In Common rally – live updates
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Jo’s sister Kim Leadbeater is speaking from Batley. Her speech is being broadcast at the event at Trafalgar Square.
Hilary Benn, the shadow foreign secretary, has launched a vicious attack on leading figures campaigning for Britain to leave the EU, claiming that they want to privatise the NHS, inflict taxes that will hurt the poor and weaken workers’ rights.
She says people asked if she was worried about speaking at such a big event. But there are much harder things in life than talking about someone you love, she says.
The Labour politician has hit out at Conservative figures, including Michael Gove, Boris Johnson and Iain Duncan Smith, as well as Ukip’s Nigel Farage, warning that British politics will shift quickly to the right if they win the referendum.
She says the family has been truly overwhelmed by the outpouring of support they have received. Knowing that she touched the lives of so many people has made a huge difference, she says.
“Why should anyone believe them when they claim they want to put people in control?Their track record tells us that their mission is nothing less than Thatcherism on steroids,” he wrote in the Guardian, arguing that their track record in politics was not to help the poor.
She says Jo devoted her life to helping others. She did not always know or understand the causes Jo worked on. But there was a pattern: principles of justice, equality, tolerance, acceptance, peace and understanding. These can be applied globally, nationally or locally, she says.
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She says she does not understand why Jo was killed.
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But she knows that Jo would have wanted people to unite against division.
Juncker says UK will not get better deal if it votes to leave
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Jennifer Rankin
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Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European commision, has told British voters there will be no re-opening of talks on Britain’s place in the EU, in the event of a vote to leave.
Big round of applause in Batley when Brendan Cox speaks of his wife's opposition to extremism of all kinds.
Out means out. British policymakers and British voters have to know that there will be no kind of renegotiation.
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Juncker said there would be no re-opening of the British “special status” agreement negotiated with David Cameron in February. Under the deal, the prime minister got an exemption from the EU goal of “ever closer union”, the right to restrict welfare rights of EU workers in Britain and safeguards for countries outside the eurozone, vis-a-vis the larger single-currency bloc.
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We have concluded a deal with the prime minister. He got the maximum he could receive and we gave the maximum we could give. So there will be no renegotiation.
Brendan Cox, Jo’s husband, is speaking now.
If Britain votes to leave the EU on Thursday, the February deal will immediately become null and void, thanks to a self-destruct clause written into the text.
He says that he wishes he was not here, and that he could be with her.
Today is her birthday. She should have been in her constituency today. She would have been campaigning for people to stay in the EU because she thought that was so important. He says she was worried about the forces the EU referendum would unleash.
But he says he does not want to talk about that today. He wants to talk about Jo. There are things about her people will not know from reading about her. She was not 5ft. She was at least 5ft 1, or 5ft 2 on a good day.
She was impractical, and once went on a cycling holiday but forgot her bike.
Above all, she was a mum. She was the best mum any child could wish for. And they wish to have her back in their lives.
He says he and his children have spoken every day about what they miss. They try to think, not what they are losing, but how lucky they were to have her in their lives.
He says one reason there has been so much support following her death is that she is seen to symbolise something under threat: tolerance.
He says her killing was political. It was designed to generate hatred. But what a beautiful irony it is that her death has instead prompted an outpouring of love. Jo lived for her beliefs, and died for them, and for the rest of our lives we will honour them, he says.
"Jo's killing was an act of terror designed to advance hatred against others. ...it has advanced an outpouring of love," Brendan Cox
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Frostrup says music was important to Jo. One of her favourite songs was Somewhere Only We Know, which the family used to sing as they left their cottage in Wales.
The day before her murder, Jo Cox’s family had spent a happy day out on the river, her husband Brendan and their two small children flying the flag for ‘IN’ as they joined the remain flotilla to counter Nigel Farage’s Brexit boat on the Thames. The kids had enjoyed it so much, Brendan Cox tweeted that afternoon, they had asked to do it again the next day.
She says when Lily Allen heard about this, she offered to sing it today. She is singing now.
On Cox’s 42nd birthday, less than a week since her killing outside her constituency surgery, her family and friends stepped aboard a barge moored by the family houseboat, to make their way up the river to Westminster again, to celebrate the life of the MP, human rights activist, wife and mother.
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Her neighbours at Hermitage Moorings had carpeted one community dinghy with 1,000 roses, a floating memorial named ‘Yorkshire Rose’ after the MP for Batley and Spen.
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At the gates of the East London moorings where the family houseboat docked, a table was filled with bouquets and potted roses left by mourners and on the riverside walkway facing the boats, there were drops of white candle wax and burnt-out memorial candles.
Mariella Frostrup, the broadcaster who was a friend of Jo Cox’s and who campaigned with her on various issues, is hosting the event.
From the Hermitage moorings with its views from Tower Bridge and City Hall, the barge with Brendan Cox and his two children, towing the floating memorial, set off up the river.
She says she and Cox campaigned together for gender equality, the education of girls and the alleviation of poverty.
Before disembarking at Westminister Pier just as Big Ben struck 3pm, the dinghy was tied to a mooring post outside the Palace of Westminster; where it will stay for a week.
She says today would have been Cox’s 42nd birthday. They are honouring her as an activist and a humanitarian.
The main event will follow in Trafalgar Square, which coincides with dozens more around the world, named More In Common, after the MP’s maiden speech.
Jo believed that people achieved more together, Frostrup she says.
The couple’s favourite band will play, with tributes from Malala, U2 and a guard of honour decked in suffragette colours of purple, green and white.
Representatives from various faith groups, and from the Humanist Association, are laying 42 white roses to commemorate Cox.
#MoreInCommon Brendan Cox and his 2 children Cuillin &Lejla on a barge from the Hermitage Community #yplive @Jo_Cox1 pic.twitter.com/7rNi7Asiwa
Frostrup says today is also the birthday of Bernard Carter-Kenny, the pensioner who was seriously injured trying to save Cox. Frostrup sends her best wishes for his recovery.
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.@jeremycorbyn now riffing on his favourite topics: country-by-country reporting; financial transactions tax; posted workers' directive.
Here is the scene from Batley, in Jo Cox’s constituency, where another More In Commons event is taking place.
Corbyn is repeating many of the points he raised in his EU speech yesterday.
People waiting to sign the book of condolences at the Jo Cox memorial in Batley town square. pic.twitter.com/dV8aKh3R1L
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Corbyn is talking about the need for countries to work together to tackle problems with an international dimension, like pollution.
More In Common event in memory of Jo Cox
“The sea is a common denominator for all of us,” he says.
Here is the scene from the More In Common event in Trafalgar Square in memory of Jo Cox.
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The band playing is Diddley Dee, a band that Jo loved and that played at her wedding.
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Later there will be a film tribute to Jo, speeches from her husband Brendan, her sister Kim Leadbeater and Malala, the Pakistani activist and Nobel Peace Prize winners, as well as video messages and music.
This is from my colleague Heather Stewart.
We will be covering the proceedings in detail.
Noticeably upbeat tone at last Labour In event - less transactional, more about spirit of openness and cooperation the EU represents.
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Jeremy Corbyn is speaking now.
He thanks Khan for winning the London mayor election against the most disgusting campaign he had ever seen in an election.
Labour does not believe in the status quo, he says. It wants to reform Europe to make it work better for people.
He says people should vote to remain in the EU for jobs, for rights at work and for the NHS.
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Sadiq Khan is speaking now. He says Labour faces the fight of its life between now and 10pm tomorrow. He says staying in the EU is the best way to be true to British values and Labour values.
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Kezia Dugdale, the Scottish Labour leader, says the risks of leaving the EU outweigh any potential benefits. And these are risks we do not have to take, she says.
She says you do not have to love Europe to vote for it.
Tomorrow is not the day for a protest vote, she says.
