Education
Cox was educated at Heckmondwike Grammar School and then Cambridge University, graduating in 1995.
Cox was educated at Heckmondwike Grammar School and then Cambridge University, graduating in 1995.
She is a former head of policy for Oxfam and a former advisor to Sarah Brown and Baroness Kinnock. She is national chair of Labour Women"s Network and a senior advisor to the Freedom Fund, an anti-slavery charity. Cox was one of 36 Labour MPs to nominate Jeremy Corbyn as a candidate in the Labour leadership election of 2015.
In the subsequent vote for United Kingdom military intervention in Syria she abstained.
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She is the Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for the constituency of Batley and Spen after winning the seat in the 2015 general election.