the House of Commons that morning in 2016, only four days after my sister’s murder. Parliament had been recalled and our family was invited to watch the tributes from the public gallery.
The only spare seat in the house was Jo’s. It was empty except for two roses: a white rose symbolising our home county of Yorkshire and a red one for Labour.
It was all such a blur. I remember blowing kisses to some of the MPs who were paying tribute, and waving to some of Jo’s friends that I recognised on the packed benches.
Rachel Reeves [the Labour MP for Leeds West] gave a beautiful and heartbreaking speech, saying, ‘Batley and Spen can elect a new MP, but no one can replace a mother.’Watching from the gallery were my parents, Jo’s husband Brendan and.
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