Jo Cox’s family hear warm tributes in House of Commons

The young children of Labour MP Jo Cox came to the House of Commons to hear emotional tributes to their mother as parliament was recalled to pay its respects four days after her death in a street attack in her West Yorkshire constituency.

Three-year-old daughter Lejla sat on her father Brendan’s lap, while son Cuillin, five, snuggled up to his grandmother in the gallery overlooking the chamber of the Commons.

They heard Prime Minister David Cameron praise their mother as “a voice of compassion whose irrepressible spirit and boundless energy lit up the lives of all who knew her”, while Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said that, with her death, British society had lost “one of our very best”.