Eight years ago, on becoming a councillor, Matthew Hicks was told not to worry, because ‘there isn’t too much of a time commitment’.
He may have reflected wryly on those words since then, not least after becoming leader of Suffolk CC in May last year – less than a year before the publication of the Corporate Peer Challenge report in February.
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