Dead Socialist Watch, #283
Robin Cook, contributor to The Red Paper on Scotland, Labour MP and Foreign Secretary, born 28 February 1946, died 6 August 2005.
Robin Cook, contributor to The Red Paper on Scotland, Labour MP and Foreign Secretary, born 28 February 1946, died 6 August 2005.
And sadly missed. The strange thing for me though is my memory is he resigned from the Cabinet over Iraq, then died a few weeks later. What did he do for those two years? He was even alive for the 2005 election.
↓ Quote | Posted 7 August, 2007, 7:01 amHe wrote a book. Um? Not really sure, after that.
↓ Quote | Posted 7 August, 2007, 7:26 amdespite his opposition to the war he ended up doing a lot of campaigning for the party during 2005 – trying to avoid the general election becoming a referendum on it. He was also quite active in the events being held at the time to discuss what a post-Blair Labour Party should look like – he also a pushed the idea that Brown would need to take over sooner rather later and many thought he would end up back in the cabinet under Brown – http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article304437.ece – though of course that’s easier to say when he’s gone.
↓ Quote | Posted 7 August, 2007, 8:19 am