Gordon Brown on Robin Cook

The full text of Gordon Brown's eulogy to Robin Cook at today's funeral is here. Extracts:

He was in politics not to be something but to do something, not to get what he could but to give all that he could, there not to seek power over principle but to seek power for principle.

And:

And this is how we will remember Robin. As a Foreign Secretary of the first rank. A European. An internationalist. His ethical mission, the advancement of rights for people denied them, his first act was to restore the voice of trade unionism to GCHQ; who banned land mines; who, with Tony and now Jack Straw worked tirelessly for Middle East peace; who strove to banish ethnic cleansing from the Balkans and saved the lives and limbs of many who will never know his name; with Joshka Fischer, here today, he advanced European unity; who played the key role in the removal of Milosevic; who was unafraid to intervene to send troops not only to Kosovo but to Sierra Leone to save that tortured land.

His noble vision: a world where the just became powerful and the powerful became just.