I've got no axe to grind about Robin Cook, but before we go about shooting down straw men, here's the quote.

Mr Hague's suggestion that a second Labour term would turn Britain into "a foreign land" was among several remarks by leading Conservatives which gave succour to those with racist views, Mr Cook is due to suggest.

In a speech to the Centre for the Open Society in London, Mr Cook is due to condemn Mr Townend's comments, saying: "This narrow view of British identity, fed on myths about 'our island race', arises from a pitiful misreading of British history.

"The British are not a race, but a gathering of countless different races, the vast majority of which were not indigenous to these islands.

"The idea that Britain was a 'pure' Anglo-Saxon society before the arrival of communities from the Caribbean, Asia and Africa is a fantasy."

Cheers
Ian