(see related) Lower House Speaker Laura Boldrini said Friday that the "barbaric murder" of British MP Labour MP Jo Cox "should make us think".
"The climate of political debate in Great Britain, in the United States but also in Italy is becoming increasingly exasperated," Boldrini said.
"I consider this way of doing politics to be very dangerous," she said.
Also on Friday, London-based Italian Labour Party campaigner Ivana Bartoletti said she was "shocked and very distured" by Cox's murder.
"I got to know her when she was president of the Labour Women's Network and I was a member of her executive," Bartoletti told ANSA.
"She was a model for all women, a lively MP, marvellous with huge talent, energy, skill and passion," she added. Bartoletti also said she was "terrified" by the sudden changes underway in Britain. "Years ago I chose Britain for its multiculturalism and the strength of its democratic institutions," she said. On Thursday Italian Premier Matteo Renzi expressed dismay over the stabbing and shooting murder of Cox, 41, by a suspected far-right supporter ahead of next week's referendum on Britain's membership of the EU. "A horrible act of hatred that casts a shadow over the hearts of us all," Renzi said. "This hatred will never prevail, in Britain or elsewhere".
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