1ST LEAD British politicians halt campaigning to remember slain lawmaker By Bill Smit, dpa

London (dpa) - British politicians suspended general election campaigning for one hour on Sunday to remember Jo Cox, a pro-migrant, pro-EU Labour lawmaker who was murdered last year by a white supremacist sympathizer."People from all parties paid tribute to local groups working to unite communities across the country, demonstrating Jo Cox‘s belief that we have ‘more in common than that which divides us‘," opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said on Facebook, quoting Cox.Cox, a 41-year-old centre-left lawmaker in the northern county of Yorkshire, was shot and stabbed to death in her Batley and Spen constituency on June 16 last year.The murder, which the sentencing judge called a political act, came one week before Britain voted to leave the European Union.Politicians from the ruling Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats, the Scottish Nationalists and the Greens joined one-hour memorials for Cox at noon (1100 GMT), breaking from campaigning ahead of a general election on June 8."Thanks to all the candidates taking part in the pause today, a powerful signal of togetherness," Cox‘s widower, Brendan Cox, said on Twitter.Election candidates in Edinburgh, the Scottish capital, spent the hour together in a "one-hour truce," Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale said on Twittter."Great to have a cross-party truce with my fellow Edinburgh candidates today to remember Jo Cox, they‘re a good bunch of folks," said Iain McGill, Dugdale‘s Conservative rival in Edinburgh. In Cox‘s Batley and Spen constituency, candidates also took a break from campaigning to "remember we have ‘more in common‘," said Labour candidate Tracy Brabin.Corbyn said he spent the hour at a Chinese community centre in Liverpool."There are tens of thousands of places like this across our country and the workers and volunteers who keep them running are invaluable to our society," he said."They bring us together and enrich our lives," Corbyn said. "And they, often unknowingly, celebrate our diversity, create cohesion in our communities and reinforce that we have more in common than that which divides us."Brendan Cox is co-organizing a series of "Great Get-Together" street parties as "a big, joyful, national celebration of our shared values" to be held on June 16-18 across the country to mark the first anniversary of Cox‘s death.   Thomas Mair, 53, was convicted of Cox‘s murder and sentenced to life in prison in November.Local media reported that Mair had received treatment for mental illness, but a psychiatric examination found no evidence that he was not responsible for his actions in killing Cox.