THE POINT OF DEPARTURE
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At the moment, we only deliver to customers in Ibadan and Abuja. If you will like to have books delivered to you anywhere else in Nigeria, please visit our konga store to make your order.On 17 March 2003, Robin Cook, Leader of the House of Commons and former Foreign Secretary, resigned from the Cabinet in protest at the coming war in Iraq.
For the two years before that dramatic event Robin Cook had kept a diary, a personal record of Labour's extraordinary second term which came to be dominated by one event — the determination of Tony Blair to wage war against Iraq. In this unvarnished, behind-the-scenes account of the run up to war, interspersed with trenchant observation, we follow Cook's gathering disillusionment as the political compass of the party he loves changes almost beyond recognition — from its failure over Lords reform and unwillingness to tackle fundamental social issues, to its disastrous alliance with President Bush and the most right-wing administration in US history.
