Labour MP Jo Cox is currently in critical condition at Leeds General Infirmary, after an armed assailant attacked her in her constituency.
Cox, 41, was shot and stabbed by the assailant, and left bleeding on the ground. She was carted to the hospital via ambulance, where an armed guard has been placed on her.
The suspected assailant was arrested at a nearby market.
Eyewitnesses describe a brutal attack by a man in his fifties on the Batley and Spen MP, armed with a gun and a knife
The BBC reports….

Cafe owner Clarke Rothwell, who witnessed the attack, said he heard a “loud popping noise that sounded like a balloon burst – a loud balloon”
“When I looked round there’s a man stood there in his 50s with a white baseball cap on and a jacket with a gun, an old fashioned looking gun in his hand,” he said.
“He shot this lady once and then he shot her again, he fell to the floor, leant over shot her once more in the face area.
“Somebody tried to grab him, wrestling with him and then he wielded a knife, like a hunting knife, just started lunging at her with a knife half a dozen times. People were screaming and running from the area”.
Eyewitness Hithem Ben Abdallah, said the 41-year-old mother of two was left lying and bleeding on the pavement after the incident.

Cox is married with two children. British politicians such as Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and Prime Minister David Cameron have both expressed concern over the attack and wished the MP well.