SO Robin Cook has been having a bit of nookie away from home.

Tony Blair says he has sympathy with his problem, but it is a personal problem which won't interfere with his government job.

Well, he is Foreign Secretary and is always away from home.

What a difference an election makes.

It would seem that personal indiscretions are now acceptable to New Labour.

Is this not just a little bit hypocritical, Mr Blair, after all the stick your mob handed out over the past 18 years?

Playing away from home is sleazy whether you are a Labour, Tory or Liberal MP.

JOHN D FARRER, Mallard Place Oswaldtwistle.

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