Martin is our Labour columnist. He holds the finance portfolio at Ipswich Borough Council and leads the Labour group at Suffolk County Council, which means he spends half his week balancing the books and the other half asking where they are.
Opinion
Suffolk County Council voted by 50 votes to two against Labour’s motion on Ipswich’s traffic on 8 October. Martin Cook, leader of the Labour group at the county council, was one of the two, and explains what the fifty voted against.
Opinion
Suffolk County Council borrowed a JCB for 48 hours and called it a war on potholes. In his debut column, leader of the Labour Group at Suffolk County Council, Martin Cook, argues the borough is quietly doing the county's job for free.
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