Just heard Robin Cook has died

[rickman]

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Just announced on BBC news.

Oh no! Heard he'd collapsed, but they weren't saying it was definitely him

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59!

How sad

That's sad, a good man who stood by his own personal beliefs.

sky news says heart attack.....

Oh, it was on the news earlier that he'd collapsed up a mountain and they spent 40 mins resuscitating - it didn't sound good then - I will miss him (esp on Dead Ringers)

good grief how awful.

oh my! that's a shock

Blimey.. Isn't Mo Mowlam also very ill in hospital?

Peachy Clair

You took the words right out of my mouth.

He wouldn't have been my cup of tea, but I truly admired his stance on Iraq.

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sad - but if you have to go - then what a way to go - having just climbed a mountain in the highlands - a place that he obviously loved.

Damn, he was young, too

Very sad - always is when we loose some one with integrity.

How awful, like others have said, a man with great intregity who stood by what he believed in.

Not only did he stand by what he believed in, but it looks like he was right too. I remember him saying "Iraq doesn't have WMD" as if the very idea was laughable, just before we marched into Iraq.

Very sad....I admired him for so many things. His refusal to be browbeaten by TB showed him to be a man of integrity. A good man

Keeping this bumped.

Robin Cook has died. Mo Mowlam is seriously ill. Two fine politicians who stuck by their principles and didn't kowtow to the Blair machine. Robin Cook exposed what most of us knew about the shameful lies which led this country into war. He will be missed by many, but not by Blair, I suspect.

Very sad. A man of principle and the government doesn't have many of them.

I will miss him. 59 was too soon. We need more politicians like Robin Cook helping to run this country.