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 == Nationality == 

 Cook is self-evidently English, so shouldn't he be described as such in the lead? On the same point, is it normal to give an analysis of a person's ancestry in the lead paragraph? The main body of the article strikes me as the appropriate place for this kind of detail. 

 Someone's obviously keen to point out his Welsh ancestry - which is fine - but this is not so important as to be one of the very first things mentioned in the article, and to negate his being identified as English. 

 Furthermore, the wording of the ""Early Life and Education"" paragraph strikes me as unbalanced. It focuses on his Welsh ancestry ahead of his English ancestry (and these are 50:50, remember), citing his English father as a mitigating afterthought (""although"") to his otherwise predominant Welshness. The facts of his life (born, raised and resident in England) suggest that the emphasis of this sentence should if anything be reversed.  "