What is Robin Cook?
{{Infobox Politician | honorific-prefix = <small>[[The Right Honourable]]</small> | name = Robin Cook | image= Robin Cook-close crop.jpg | birth_date = {{birth date|1946|02|28|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Bellshill]], [[Scotland]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|2005|08|6|1946|02|28|df=y}} | death_place = [[Inverness]], Scotland | office = [[Leader of the House of Commons]]<br>[[Lord President of the Council]] | term_start = 8 June 2001 | term_end = 17 March 2003 | primeminister = [[Tony Blair]] | predecessor = [[Margaret Beckett]] | successor = [[John Reid (politician)|John Reid]] | office2 =[[Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs]] | term_start2 = 2 May 1997 | term_end2 = 8 June 2001 | predecessor2 = [[Malcolm Rifkind]] | successor2 = [[Jack Straw (politician)|Jack Straw]] | constituency_MP3=[[Edinburgh Central (UK Parliament constituency)|Edinburgh Central]] | majority3= | term_start3 = 28 February 1974 | term_end3 = 9 June 1983 | predecessor3 = [[Thomas Oswald]] | successor3 = [[Alexander MacPherson Fletcher|Alexander Fletcher]] | constituency_MP4=[[Livingston (UK Parliament constituency)|Livingston]] | term_start4 = 9 June 1983 | term_end4 = 6 August 2005 | predecessor4 = ''(new constituency)'' | successor4 = [[Jim Devine]] | party=[[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] }} '''Robin Cook''' (28 February 1946 – 6 August 2005) was a politician in the British [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]]. He was [[Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs]] of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2001. He resigned from the [[cabinet]] in 2003 in protest after the [[Invasion of Iraq]]. Shortly after becoming [[Foreign Secretary]], he left his wife, Margaret, to live with Gaynor Regan, his secretary. He died of [[heart disease]] whilst on a walking holiday in the Highlands. Cook was an [[atheist]].<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4143846.stm Mourners' funeral tribute to Cook]</ref> == References == <references/> {{DEFAULTSORT:Cook, Robin}} [[Category:British atheists]] [[Category:Deaths fr