The husband and two young children of Jo Cox gathered with her friends in Trafalgar Square for a vigil on what would have been her 42nd birthday. The Labour MP was stabbed and shot dead outside a constituency surgery in Birstall less than a week ago.

Her widower Brendan and the couple's two young children left their home, a houseboat along the Thames, and travelled by boat up the river to prepare for the rally. They towed a small flower-covered boat named the Yorkshire Rose as a memorial to the campaigner.

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A boat called 'Yorkshire Rose', filled with roses is moored next to the houseboat of the late Jo Cox Jack Taylor/Getty Images
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Two people embrace beside the houseboat of the late Jo Cox at Hermitage Moorings on the River Thames Jack Taylor/Getty Images
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The memorial to Jo Cox makes its way down the Thames Neil Hall/Reuters
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Brendan Cox, the widower of MP Jo Cox, and their two children Cuillin, 5 and Lejla, 3 prepare to board a boat at Hermitage Moorings on the River Thames, where the family lived on a houseboat Jack Taylor/Getty Images
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Cuillin Cox, the son of murdered Labour Party MP Jo Cox, wears a white rose Toby Melville/Reuters
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Brendan Cox, the husband of the murdered Labour MP, travels by boat along the River Thames with their children Lejla and Cuillin Toby Melville/Reuters
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Yorkshire Rose, a boat filled with flowers in memory of murdered Labour Party MP Jo Cox, is towed down the River Thames Neil Hall/Reuters
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A boat filled with flowers is towed down the Thames by the family of Jo Cox Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
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Jo Cox's husband and their children tow a memorial dedicated to the murdered Labour MP down the River Thames Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
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Brendan Cox, husband of murdered Labour MP Jo Cox, and their children ride on the boat towing a memorial Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
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The family of murdered Labour MP Jo Cox moor a memorial dedicated to her in the middle of the River Thames beside the Houses of Parliament Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
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People hold banners of murdered Labour Party MP Jo Cox, during a special service at Trafalgar Square Toby Melville/Reuters
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Brendan Cox, speaks at an event to commemorate his late wife in Trafalgar Square Justin Tallis/AFP
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Lily Allen performs during a memorial event for murdered Labour MP Jo Cox at Trafalger Squa Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
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Members of the public applaud as they attend a memorial event for murdered Labour MP Jo Cox at Trafalger Square Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
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Gillian Anderson and Bill Nighy take part in the memorial event at Trafalgar Square Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
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Human rights campaigner Malala Yousafzai delivers a speech on stage at Trafalgar Square Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
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A woman holds white roses during a special service for murdered Labour Party MP Jo Cox at Trafalgar Square Toby Melville/Reuters

Memorials will also be held in Cox's home town of Batley and in Huddersfield. A tribute will be set up at the Glastonbury festival, while several bands involved in the annual event are set to contribute towards a charity album in her name. A Go Fund Me page set up in Jo Cox's name by her family and friends has already raised more than £1,290,000, with an eventual target of £1.5 million.

Events are planned around the world on what would have been her birthday, with a candlelit vigil held at a charity centre in Syria, and events planned in New York, Washington, Paris and Brussels.

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