Jo Cox's sister reveals late MP experienced periods of loneliness

Kim Leadbeater says her older sister felt profound isolation both at university and when she became a mother

The public image projected by the late Labour MP Jo Cox was of a cheerfully confident and outgoing professional, so it is startling to hear her sister describe her as someone who struggled at times with profound loneliness.

She experienced it first when she went to university. “When she went to Cambridge she found herself in a new world, which for a working class northern girl was very intimidating and she found it very difficult,” her younger sister Kim Leadbeater said. “We used to talk on the phone late at night. She missed the safety and the comfort of her family and friends.”

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