British finance minister George Osborne said he hoped there would be a "less divisive" debate in the remaining days leading up to the UK's EU referendum on Thursday as the campaign to decide Britain's membership of the European Union restarted after a three-day hiatus following the killing of lawmaker Jo Cox. Labour's Cox, an ardent supporter of EU membership, was shot and stabbed in the street in her electoral district in northern England on Thursday, shocking Britain and raising questions about the tone of campaigning. A 52-year-old man appeared in a London magistrate's court on Saturday, charged with her murder. "I hope, because of the tragic death of Jo, we can have a less divisive political debate in our country and particularly in the last few days of this referendum we can have less baseless assertion and inflammatory rhetoric and more reasoned argument and facts," Osborne told journalist Robert Peston on ITV television today. Immigration and the economy has defined the debate over Britain's membership of the European Union and following the death of Mrs Cox, questions have been raised about the tone of the campaign from both Leave and Remain sides. "There are perfectly...
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