I so enjoy the Suffolk Show, personally and professionally. I’ve been more times than I can remember and on every occasion, there has been wonderful sense of comforting familiarity mixed with the excitement of new experiences.
As this is my first column since the local elections, it is right that I reflect on the results. The Conservative Party sits here after the most difficult set of local elections for many years.
In the 2021 County Council elections, for the first time in many years, more than half of the Councillors elected to represent Ipswich were Conservative Party candidates. The Leader of the Council, Matthew Hicks, and I are determined that we repay this faith that was put us.