Jo Cox's grieving husband has said he hopes her death "will have meaning" following the conviction of the fascist killer who brutally took her life.
Speaking outside the Old Bailey after Thomas Mair was handed a whole life sentence, Brendan Cox said the ideas and values "she held so dear will live on" after the Labour MP's death.
He branded her murder "an act of terrorism" and said that while it was driven by hatred, it had instead "created an outpouring of love".
"As a family, we will not respond to hatred with hatred," said Mr Cox.
"We will love like Jo did and know that, although she is dead, the ideas and values that she held so dear will live on.
"And know that, although she is not with us, her energy and her love are hard-wired into our children for the rest of their lives.
"Finally, we hope the country will also take something from this - that Jo's death will have meaning.
"That those in politics, the media and our own communities who seek to divide us will face an unassailable wall of British tolerance and the articulation of Jo's belief that we hold more in common than that which divides us."
He extended his thanks to well-wishers, adding: "This has been Britain at its best - compassionate, courageous and kind. It's given us great strength and solace."
Mr Cox also praised the efforts of the police, the wider emergency services and the courts.
"To the person who did this we have nothing but pity - that his life was so devoid of love and consumed with hatred that this became his desperate and cowardly attempt to find meaning," he added.
"The killing of Jo was a political act, an act of terrorism, but in the history of such acts, it was perhaps the most incompetent and self-defeating.
"An act driven by hatred which instead has created an outpouring of love. An act designed to drive communities apart which has instead pulled them together. An act designed to silence a voice which instead has allowed millions of others to hear it."
He said the family will try not to focus on how unlucky they were to lose Mrs Cox, but on how lucky they were to have had her in their lives for so long.
Inside the court Mr Cox paid tribute to the jury and apologised to them for having to "go through" the trial.
He was joined by his wife's parents Gordon and Jean Leadbeater and her sister Kim, who remained composed throughout the sentencing.
He said: "You have heard so much about her death, we wanted to tell you about her life."
Mr Cox said his wife was "committed to make the world a better place" having become interested in politics while at university in Cambridge. She was the first in her family to go to university.
He recalled her childhood in Batley which she spent playing in the fields with her sister, rolling in barrels down the hill, adding: "How she made it to adulthood was a real miracle."
Mr Cox also revealed to the court how he had fallen in love with Jo while they worked at Oxfam together.
In a pre-recorded interview released after Mair was found guilty of killing the 41-year-old MP, Mr Cox spoke about what he would tell their two children about their mother.
"I will tell them that she was an amazing woman who was very widely loved and respected, that she fought for her values and her beliefs and that she died for them," he said.
"That she loved them, first and foremost, and that she was funny and fun and adventurous."
Mr Cox said he had "no interest" in Mair and thought "Britain would be ashamed" of his actions.
He said: "I think for me there is a contrast there between the bravery of Jo - what she stood for, what she fought for, and in her final moments asking her friends who were trying to help her to get away so that they wouldn't get hurt - with the cowardice of a man who attacks a 5ft tall woman with a gun and a knife, and then is too scared to take the dock and to account for his actions in court.
"So for me it's that contrast between the bravery and some of the best of us, with the sheer cowardice and hatred that I don't think represents anything in our country."
