Brendan Cox has urged Britain not to let itself be divided by the
Westminster attack, saying the assailant no more represents British Muslims than his wife’s murderer represented the people of Yorkshire.
Jo Cox, a Labour MP, died after being shot and stabbed outside her constituency surgery in Birstall, West Yorkshire on 16 June by far-right extremist Thomas Mair.
Mr Cox said it was important to remember the victims, and not the assailant, of yesterday's terror attack outside Parliament and on Westminster Bridge that left four dead.
"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," he said.