Robin Cook has died!

[spartak]

[Last Conformist]

Robin who?

[Bereta_Eder]

the british former foreign minister?

[alva]

Former minister Robin Cook dies
Robin Cook
Robin Cook was airlifted to hospital
Former Cabinet minister Robin Cook has died after he collapsed while out hill walking, police have said.

It is believed that he was taken ill near the summit of Ben Stack, near an area known as Laxford Bridge in north-west Scotland.

Mr Cook, 59, was flown by helicopter to Raigmore Hospital in Inverness, and is understood to have received 40 minutes of resuscitation en route.

Mr Cook quit as Commons leader in March 2003, in protest over the war in Iraq.

'Keen walker'

Mr Cook was said to be with a companion at the time he was taken ill.

On his personal website, he described himself as a keen follower of horse racing. He was also a keen walker and cyclist.

Map of Scotland with location of Ben Stack
Robin Cook was flown from Ben Stack to Inverness

The 721m-high Ben Stack is popular with hill-walkers.

Landslide win

Mr Cook, who first became an MP for Edinburgh Central in 1974, was appointed the shadow health secretary in 1989 and became the shadow trade and industry secretary in 1992.

In 1994, he became the shadow foreign secretary, a position he held until the 1997 election.

After Labour's landslide win, he entered the Cabinet as foreign secretary.

Photo: Undiscovered Scotland
Mr Cook was walking on Ben Stack with a companion

A Cabinet reshuffle after the 2001 Labour victory saw him replaced at the Foreign Office by Jack Straw, with Mr Cook instead given the job of Leader of the Commons.

He resigned that position in the lead-up to the conflict in Iraq in protest over Tony Blair's decision to go to war.

He had been an outspoken critic of the government's foreign policy from the backbench.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4127654.stm

[pchang]

Robin Cook still alive

The author of medical thrillers is the more famous Robin Cook and he is still alive.

[Bereta_Eder]

i rather liked him. pity

[Verto]

Re: Robin Cook still alive

Originally posted by pchang
The author of medical thrillers is the more famous Robin Cook and he is still alive.

That's who I thought this was about. Glad to see it was just some British bloke.

[Winston]

I'm sorry to hear this.

While I didn't always agree with his views, far from it, I always saw him as a dedicated and well meaning politician.

[spartak]

Re: Robin Cook still alive

Originally posted by pchang
The author of medical thrillers is the more famous Robin Cook and he is still alive.

Famours where? There is more to the world than the US you know. This is quite important news in the UK. Oaf.

[Sandman]

His resignation speech is brilliant.

"Iraq probably has no weapons of mass destruction in the commonly understood sense of the term - namely a credible device capable of being delivered against a strategic city target."

[Bereta_Eder]

the man was a light in the darkness. i remember reading an interview of his in eleutherotypia, he was the voice of reason. nothing more nothing less. and he had the sensitivity/decency to back up his position by leaving office.

[Tattila the Hun]

Re: Re: Robin Cook still alive

Originally posted by spartak
Famours where? There is more to the world than the US you know. This is quite important news in the UK. Oaf.

Famous in Finland, too.

[PLATO]

Regardless of what one thinks of his policy positions, Cook was a diplomat of great Stature. His loss is a heavy one for Great Britain.

[Az]

what plato said.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Az
what plato said.