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Labor MP Cox has been shot and stabbed in her constituency in West Yorkshire, [9]according to reports.
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She was elected as a Labour MP for Batley and Spen constituency in 2015, [5]was attacked and injured near a library in Birstall, near Leeds after being shot twice.[1]
She was taken by an air ambulance to Leeds General Infirmary.
Who is Cox?
Follow @UsernameHelen Joanne Cox (born 22 June 1974) is a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.[3] She is the Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of Batley and Spen after winning the seat in the 2015 general election.[10]
She was educated at Heckmondwike Grammar School,[10] state grammar school in Heckmondwike, West Yorkshire. She studied at the University of Cambridge, [9]graduating in 1995
She was head of policy for Oxfam and was an advisor to Sarah Brown and Baroness Kinnock.[11]
She was national chair of Labour Women’s Network and a senior advisor to the Freedom Fund, [13]an anti-slavery charity
Cox was one of 36 Labour MPs to nominate Jeremy Corbyn as a candidate in the Labour leadership election of 2015.[1] However, in the election she voted for the Blairite candidate Liz Kendall,[2] and announced in May 2016 that she regretted nominating Corbyn.[8]
In October 2015 she co-authored,[3] with Conservative MP Andrew Mitchell, an article in The Observer arguing that British military forces could help achieve an ethical solution to the conflict in Syria.[4]
During that month Cox launched the All Party Parliamentary Friends of Syria group,[7] becoming its chair.
In the subsequent vote for UK military intervention in Syria she abstained,[2] as she did not consider the intervention to be part of an effective comprehensive strategy to tackle the Syrian conflict including dealing with President Bashar al-Assad.[6]
The Syrian Civil War is one of Cox’s main campaigning issues.[2]
Source: Mashable
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