Brexit: The long, loud silence

While the U.K.’s Conservative and Labour leaders were paying tribute to slain MP Jo Cox, some Brexiteers were nowhere to be seen.

A photo of Jo Cox alongside flowers laid at a memorial site for the slain British MP at Parliament Square in London, U.K.Flickr photograph by Garry Knight

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

June 22, 2016

LONDON, U.K.—The British parliament met in London Monday, so that MPs of every party could express their horror and disgust at the murder last Thursday of their colleague Jo Cox, MP for Batley and Spen in West Yorkshire. And on Monday everybody did, including the leaders of the Brexit campaign, Bo...

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