Nigel Farage nothing better than Tommy Robinson in a suit, says Jo Cox’s husband after Southport riot comments

Southport riots: Jo Cox’s partner says ‘Farage nothing better than Tommy Robinson in a suit’BBC

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00:00I have to say there are one or two questions.

00:03Was this guy being monitored by the security services?

00:07Some reports say he was, others less sure.

00:11The police say it's a non-terror incident.

00:14Just as they said the stabbing of an army lieutenant colonel in uniform

00:18on the streets of Kent the other day was a non-terror incident.

00:22I just wonder whether the truth is being withheld from us.

00:27I don't know the answer to that.

00:29But I think it is a fair and legitimate question.

00:33Let's talk to Brendan Cox, founder of Better Together.

00:36His wife, the Labour MP Jo Cox, was murdered in 2016

00:40by a far-right terrorist.

00:42Brendan, good morning.

00:44Good morning.

00:45What is your response to an elected MP posing that sort of question?

00:51Before I answer that, I think where our focus should be

00:55is in thinking about Elsie and Alice and Bibi and their families

01:00and the eight other kids who are still in hospital and recovering.

01:05Instead, what we are talking about today is those horrific scenes

01:11that you've just been describing, the attack on the mosque,

01:14the incitement of hatred.

01:17Yes, it's been done, as you were just hearing from Hope Not Hate,

01:21it's been done by far-right extremists on the fringe.

01:25But the willingness of supposedly mainstream politicians,

01:29somebody like Nigel Farage, to put out that kind of insinuation,

01:36that line of, you know, is the truth being withheld from us?

01:40Do we not know some of the answers to this, which we certainly don't,

01:43but is the truth being withheld from us?

01:45Is this person being monitored?

01:47Some people say they are.

01:48It's right out of the Trump playbook.

01:50And in my view, it makes Nigel Farage nothing better

01:54than a Tommy Robinson in a suit.

01:56It is beyond the pale to use a moment like this

02:00to spread your narrative and to spread your hatred.

02:03And we saw the results on Southport Streets last night.