The London Mayor has been speaking in an emotional interview about his friend, Labour MP Jo Cox, who was killed in the street.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has told Sky News the EU referendum has become "poisonous" and "we should all reflect on the way the referendum campaign has been conducted".
He was speaking during an emotional interview about his friend and Labour MP Jo Cox, who was killed in a street attack near her constituency surgery in West Yorkshire.
He said he was "heartbroken" about the politician's death on Thursday, as he pointed from his offices to the boat on the Thames where she lived.
Labour mayor Mr Khan said: "Jo was the best of politics and she inspired and energised people."
"Some of the posters unveiled, some of the language used... that's not the best of politics".
Reflecting on both the EU referendum and his own mayoral campaign, he said: "The way politics is conducted in this country is poisonous - and the British public is decent.
"The way we behave is not decent, and where there's hate and poison, we've got to change".
On the referendum campaign specifically, he said: "I think we should all reflect on the way the campaign has been conducted.
"I'm not against being held to account, or the robustness of debates, challenging cases, not against evidence-based politics - I think we need to go back to that rather than not what we've got now."
The Mayor has a view from his office of the Cox family houseboat, moored on the Thames.
He said: "Jo was an amazing person - she lived just over there on the boat, she loved being an MP.
"Everyone who met her only has good things to say. She was a great politician, great campaigner, a three dimensional person full of life who loved being an MP in parliament... in one year she achieved more than many of my colleagues in 10/15/20 years in that place."
Mr Khan recalled the supportive social media message she sent after his landslide Mayoral victory last month was met with far right protests about 'London falling'.
"One of the phrases she used in her maiden speech is that we have more in common than divides us - great tweet she did… as only Jo could after I won as Mayor - hope defeats fear, unity defeats vision, hashtag London has risen.
"She had a wicked sense of humour. I always teased her about living on a boat - wasn't it cold!? She was a lovely person, it's a tragic, we're heartbroken."
:: Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown also hit out at some Leave campaigners who he accused of trying to "hijack" the referendum and turn it into a vote on immigration.
He wrote in the Guardian newspaper: "Temperate language has given way to the intemperate. And where there is latent prejudice, we have seen it exploited to breed intolerance, an then too often intolerance has descended into hate."
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