#Britain First denies connection to attacker who witnesses claimed shouted support for the party before killing MP Jo Cox

Far-right movement Britain First has tonight denied any connection to the suspect who shot and repeatedly stabbed Labour MP Jo Cox in a horrific attack outside her constituency surgery.
The 41-year-old married mother-of-two was shot three times - once in the head - and stabbed by a gunman who opened fire on her in the Birstall area of Leeds as she arrived to hold a meeting.
Eyewitnesses claimed the man - named locally as 53-year-old 'loner' and handyman Tommy Mair - shouted 'Britain First' as he launched the attack, which occurred at around 1pm.
However, Britain First - a British nationalist political party which campaigns against immigration, multiculturalism and Islam - has now distanced itself from the attack and denied any connection.
The group's leader, former British National Party councillor Paul Golding, claimed the attacker could have shouted 'It's time to put Britain first', as he dismissed eyewitness accounts as 'hearsay'.

The leader of the far right movement said: 'She has been out campaigning to keep Britain in the EU and there are people in the area that are against it.
'I don't think it was one of our supporters. We stand in elections and organise protests - we don't encourage this kind of nonsense.
'She has a young family - an attack on a mum like that is disgraceful.
'Whether you agree with Labour, to have had that happen to her on the streets is shocking and an indictment of the state of this country.'