Saturday, August 06, 2005
Robin Cook
Former Cabinet minister Robin Cook, 59, has died after collapsing while hill walking in north-west Scotland.
I didn't always agree with him, increasingly so in the last two or three years but I still had alot of respect for him. Not only as a very capable politician (his resignation speech was described by Andrew Marr as "without doubt one of the most effective, brilliant, resignation speeches in modern British politics" and I think that is a fair point. but also as one of the architects behind "Blairite" foreign policy and in particular the interventions in Kosovo/a and Sierra Leone.
RIP
I didn't always agree with him, increasingly so in the last two or three years but I still had alot of respect for him. Not only as a very capable politician (his resignation speech was described by Andrew Marr as "without doubt one of the most effective, brilliant, resignation speeches in modern British politics" and I think that is a fair point. but also as one of the architects behind "Blairite" foreign policy and in particular the interventions in Kosovo/a and Sierra Leone.
RIP
