Killing of UK MP an ‘act of political intolerance': Clinton
Presumptive US Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has called for the United States and the United Kingdom to "stand together against hatred” and political violence in the wake of the assassination of British politician Jo Cox.
"It is critical that the United States and Britain, two of the world's oldest and greatest democracies, stand together against hatred and violence,” Clinton said in a statement on Thursday evening.
"This is how we must honor Jo Cox — by rejecting bigotry in all its forms, and instead embracing, as she always did, everything that binds us together," she stated.
Cox, a Member of Parliament (MP), was killed on Thursday outside a library where she regularly met constituents in Birstall in northern England.
The 41-year-old former aid worker and pro-EU campaigner known for her advocacy on behalf of Syrian refugees, had been repeatedly shot and stabbed, witnesses told local media.
A suspect who reportedly yelled "Britain first" was nabbed in the area after the attack.
Clinton said she was "horrified" by the killing of the Labour Party MP.
"It is cruel and terrible that her life was cut short by a violent act of political intolerance," Clinton said.
Following the attack, both sides in Britain's June 23 EU referendum on staying or leaving the bloc said they were suspending their campaigns.
British Prime Minister David Cameron also pulled out of a planned rally in Gibraltar, a British overseas territory located on the southern end of Spain and disputed between London and Madrid in the westernmost point of the Mediterranean Sea.
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