DHAKA: A man has been charged with murder in connection with the shooting of Labour MP Jo Cox.

England's West Yorkshire Police said Thomas Mair, 52, has been charged with the murder of the 41-year-old lawmaker, reports the BBC.

She was shot and stabbed outside her constituency surgery in Birstall, West Yorkshire, on Thursday.

Mair will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Saturday and faces a number of other charges, including grievous bodily harm.

He is further charged with possession of a firearm with intent and possession of an offensive weapon, the force said.

Speaking on Friday, temporary Chief Constable Dee Collins said a 77-year-old man remains in a stable condition in hospital after he was injured when he “bravely intervened” in an effort to help the mother of two.

Vigils were held across the country on Friday evening as members of the public and politicians came together to lay flowers, light candles and stand in silence in memory of Cox.

The Prime Minister said the whole nation was “rightly shocked” at her death and called for people to “value, and see as precious, the democracy we have on these islands”.

Politics is about public service and MPs want to “make the world a better place”, he said.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn described the former aid worker as “an exceptional, wonderful, very talented woman.... [who] had so much to give and so much of her life ahead of her”, during a joint visit to her home town.

Meanwhile, Downing Street has confirmed a female MP wrote to Cameron last year raising concerns about the safety of her colleagues and attacks on her personally.

BDST: 0925 HRS, JUN 18, 2016
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