Robin Cook

Former Cabinet Minister Robin Cook "quit as Commons leader in March 2003, in protest over the war in Iraq," saying "I cannot support a war without international agreement or domestic support." Cook died August 6, 2005, while visiting in Scotland. [1]

Finest Hour

"Robin Cook's finest moment in the Commons is generally believed to have come with his devastating analysis of the Scott report on the arms-to-Iraq scandal," Mark Davies reported March 17, 2003. "Just two hours after being handed a copy of the 2,000-page document, the then shadow foreign secretary pulled apart the Tory government's handling of the affair with what was regarded as a bravura performance."

Affiliations

• ex-Foreign Secretary of the UK
• ex-leader of the House of Commons
• president the party of European Socialists
• president of the Foreign Policy Centre
• a vice-president of the America APPG
• a vice-convenor of the Global Security and Non-Proliferation APPG

External links

• Robin Cook in the Wikipedia.
• Mark Davies, Profile: Robin Cook, BBC, March 17, 2003.
• Full Text of Cook's Speech, CNN, March 18, 2003.
• "Former minister Robin Cook dies," BBC, August 6, 2005; Obituary.