Brendan Cox calls for Britain to be united in the aftermath of London terror attack

The husband of murdered MP Jo Cox has urged Britain to be united in the aftermath of yesterday’s terror attack – and says that the attacker represents Muslims no more than his wife’s murderer reflected the people of Yorkshire.

In an impassioned interview with Radio 4, Brendan Cox said it was important that the names of the victims were remembered.

He said: ‘What the terrorist would like to happen is for us to fall apart and start blaming groups of people, to say that in some way this is Muslim or Islam as a whole,” he told Radio 4’s Today programme.

‘We have to remember that the person who did this is no more representative of British Muslims than the person who killed Jo is representative of people that are from Yorkshire.

‘I’m going to do whatever I can to remember the names of the victims like PC Palmer and not the name of the person who did this, partly driven by the desire for notoriety.’

His call for unity came after Twitter users hit out at media outlets – claiming that too many distressing images of the injured were being displayed.

Posting on Twitter, one user wrote: ‘Please don’t share your graphic, sensitive, pictures of those hurt in the #London attack. Pls pls consider the dignity of those involved.’

Another said: ‘Heart breaks for the people affected by the attack in London, especially with the awful, graphic images being put in the media.’

The attack, which killed four people, occurred yesterday afternoon when a lone attacker drove a car over Westminster Bridge and ploughed into a crowd of pedestrians.

The car then crashed into railings outside the Houses of Parliament, before the attacker left the car and ran to Parliament – where a police officer was fatally stabbed.

The attacker was subsequently shot dead by police.