Brendan Cox resigns from charities amid sexual assault claims

Brendan Cox said it had become ‘much more difficult’ to focus on his charity work after the allegations came to light.The husband of the murdered MP Jo Cox has resigned from the two charities he set up in her memory after being publicly accused of sexual assault.Brendan Cox has stepped down from his posts at More in Common and the Jo Cox Foundation after allegations, printed in the Mail on Sunday, that he assaulted a woman in her 30s at Harvard University in 2015.