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Let's say that Blair declines to run in the 1994 leadership election, and it's a virtual two-way contest between Gordon Brown (the centrist 'modernizing' candidate) and Robin Cook (the soft-left Kinnockite candidate). Margaret Beckett also runs (as the left-wing Bennite candidate), but has little support. In the end, the more charismatic Cook achieves a narrow victory over Brown.

How would a Cook leadership have turned out? Would he have led Labour to victory in 1997? And (here comes the inevitable question) if he had indeed become PM, how would he have handled the post-9/11 situation?
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