MX_OnD - the man!
MX_OnD - the man!
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Cook missed National Service due to an allergy to feathers, and took up a scholarship to read Modern History at Pembroke College, Cambridge. Among his contemporaries were Michael Howard, Leon Brittan and Kenneth Clarke. "It's a bit distressing when you find them running the country," he remarked recently. "They were all so self-important at 20 that you would have thought they'd have grown out of it."