“WOMEN in leadership roles get more criticism . . . I know what that is like,” the Archbishop of Canterbury said during a conversation to mark the tenth anniversary of the murder of Jo Cox. Ms Cox, who was the MP for Batley and Spen, died in 2016 after being shot and stabbed in her constituency.

Created by Lucky Generals in partnership with the Jo Cox Foundation, the video of the discussion was posted on YouTube last week before the Foundation’s annual Great Get Together weekend.

It brought together the Archbishop; the Rabbi and crossbench peer Baroness Neuberger; the Muslim community activist and non-affiliated peer Baroness Uddin; the Sikh Labour peer and former MEP Baroness Gill; and the agnostic Conservative peer Baroness Helic.

Archbishop Mullally spoke of receiving criticism and “not particularly nice coverage on social media”. She said that she had a responsibility to “create cohesive communities”, and “to make sure that how I act as a Christian leader in no way could be interpreted in a way that is used against other faiths”.

Speaking of Ms Cox’s death, Baroness Uddin said: “We were so shocked because that kind of public hatred for women wasn’t as evident, right?”

She continued: “I used to know Jo, and we shared many platforms, particularly regarding women and women’s safety; but what she immediately begged us all to do is arrive at our collective wisdom to do something better for women, better for community.”

Baroness Gill spoke of having multiple identities: Sikh, British, European, and being of Indian heritage.

Baroness Neuberger said: “[Jo] believed that you would be a mixture of things, but you would be proud of it, and you’d express it not for yourself, but because it allowed everybody else in.”

People from other religions, races, and ethnicities could learn from each other, Baroness Helic said.

Baroness Neuberger described this as “a Jo Cox message. There’s a bigger picture out there, which actually, from all faiths, we ought to be able to share.”

Baroness Uddin concluded: “Where we’ve come to now is hope that what happened as result of Jo’s death would then give us a better sense of direction not to go down that path of hatred.”