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Article: ROBIN COOK 1946-2005: MAN OF PEACE OUIT OVER WAR.(News)
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- Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland)
- Article date:
- August 7, 2005
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Byline: By BRIAN LIRONI
FELLOW MPs gave Robin Cook a standing ovation in the Commons after he resigned from the cabinet over the looming Iraq war.
His passionate and powerful speech demolishing the case for war in March 2003 was praised as one of the best ever delivered in the House of Commons.
Political commentator Andrew Marr called his performance ``without doubt one of the most effective, brilliant resignation speeches in modern British politics''.
It ...